A group of ten found guilty of digital abuse against Brigitte Macron
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A French judicial body has found guilty ten people for perpetrating the online harassment of Brigitte Macron, the spouse of French President, Emmanuel Macron.
The accused individuals faced allegations of spreading fabrications regarding her gender identity and sexual orientation, in addition to making defamatory statements about the couple's significant age difference.
The court delivered suspended prison sentences of a maximum of eight months to the perpetrators. The full ruling has yet to be released.
A persistent unfounded claim 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 Monday's court decision in France comes as the Macrons engaging in a libel case in the United States against conservative commentator Candace Owens, who has also voiced comparable unfounded claims about the French president's wife's identity.
Their lawsuit states that Owens brushed aside substantial counter-evidence contradicting her allegations choosing instead to platforming known conspiracy theorists.
Owens has regularly repeated these allegations on her podcast and online platforms, and in March 2024 stated that she would risk all her credibility on her conviction that Mrs. Macron is biologically male.
Brigitte Macron initially encountered her now-husband when she was a teacher at his high school.
The couple married in 2007, when the man who would become president was 29 and she was 54.
