Ten individuals sentenced of digital abuse targeting Brigitte Macron
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A Paris court has ruled against ten people for engaging in the cyber-bullying of Brigitte Macron, the partner of French President, Emmanuel Macron.
The accused individuals faced accusations of spreading fabrications regarding her gender identity and sexual orientation, in addition to posting hurtful comments about the couple's 24-year age gap.
The court delivered suspended prison sentences of a maximum of eight months to the defendants. The complete verdict has yet to be released.
A longstanding conspiracy theory alleging that Brigitte Macron is a person assigned male at birth has been in circulation since her husband's rise to the presidency in 2017.
This latest legal outcome in France is concurrent with the Macrons pursuing a libel case in the United States of America against political commentator Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted comparable unfounded claims about the French president's wife's gender.
Their lawsuit contends that Owens brushed aside all credible evidence disproving her claim in favour of amplify the voices of notorious conspiracy peddlers.
Owens has frequently reiterated these allegations on her digital program and social media channels, and in March 2024 declared that she would bet her whole career on her insistence that Mrs. Macron is in fact a man.
Brigitte Macron initially encountered her future husband when she taught at his secondary school.
The pair tied the knot in 2007, when the man who would become president was 29 and she was in her mid-50s.
