A group of ten found guilty of cyber-bullying against Brigitte Macron
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A French judicial body has ruled against ten people for engaging in the cyber-bullying of Brigitte Macron, the spouse of the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.
The defendants faced accusations of spreading fabrications regarding her gender and sexual orientation, in addition to making hurtful comments about the husband and wife's significant age difference.
The court handed down conditional custodial sentences of a maximum of eight months to the convicted individuals. The full ruling has still to be made public.
A circulating false narrative claiming that Brigitte Macron is a person assigned male at birth has spread widely since her husband's first electoral victory in 2017.
This Monday's court decision in France is concurrent with the Macrons initiating a defamation lawsuit in the United States of America against political commentator Candace Owens, who has repeatedly shared comparable unfounded claims about the French president's wife's biological sex.
Their lawsuit contends that Owens ignored substantial counter-evidence that refuted her assertions opting to amplify the voices of notorious conspiracy peddlers.
Owens has regularly repeated these allegations on her podcast and social media channels, and in March 2024 stated that she would bet her whole career on her belief that Mrs. Macron was born a man.
Brigitte Macron originally became acquainted with her future husband when she worked as an educator at his lycée.
The pair married in 2007, when the future French president was 29 and she was approximately 54 years old.
