A group of ten sentenced of online harassment against Brigitte Macron
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A Paris court has ruled against ten people for engaging in the digital intimidation of Brigitte Macron, the partner of the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.
The accused individuals faced charges of spreading fabrications regarding her sex and sexual orientation, in addition to publishing defamatory statements about the husband and wife's 24-year age gap.
The court delivered conditional custodial sentences of a maximum of eight months to the defendants. The detailed judgment has not yet been published.
A longstanding false narrative suggesting that Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman has existed since her husband's first electoral victory in 2017.
This recent ruling in France coincides with the Macrons pursuing a libel case in the United States of America against right-wing influencer Candace Owens, who has repeatedly shared analogous false narratives about the first lady's biological sex.
Their complaint contends that Owens disregarded substantial counter-evidence disproving her claim choosing instead to platforming known conspiracy theorists.
Owens has regularly repeated these assertions on her show and social networks, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would risk all her credibility on her insistence that Mrs. Macron is biologically male.
Brigitte Macron initially encountered her now-husband when she taught at his high school.
The pair entered into matrimony in 2007, when the man who would become president was 29 and she was 54.
