Ten convicted of cyber-bullying targeting Brigitte Macron

A Paris court has ruled against ten people for carrying out the online harassment of Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President, Emmanuel Macron.

The defendants faced charges of circulating fabrications regarding her sex and sexuality, in addition to making defamatory statements about the pair's significant age difference.

The court handed down conditional custodial sentences of as much as eight months to the perpetrators. The full ruling has still to be made public.

A persistent false narrative suggesting that Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman has existed since her husband's rise to the presidency in 2017.

This recent ruling in France comes as the Macrons pursuing a defamation lawsuit in the United States against political commentator Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted similar conspiracy theories about the Brigitte Macron's identity.

Their lawsuit states that Owens ignored any factual proof contradicting her allegations in favour of give a platform to established defamers.

Owens has frequently reiterated 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 originally became acquainted with her current spouse when she worked as an educator at his high school.

The couple entered into matrimony in 2007, when the man who would become president was 29 and she was in her mid-50s.