A group of ten sentenced of online harassment targeting Brigitte Macron
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A French judicial body has ruled against ten people for perpetrating the cyber-bullying of Brigitte Macron, the wife of France's leader, Emmanuel Macron.
The defendants faced accusations of circulating false claims regarding her gender identity and sexual orientation, in addition to making defamatory statements about the pair's significant age difference.
The court delivered conditional custodial sentences of as much as eight months to the perpetrators. The complete verdict has yet to be released.
A persistent false narrative suggesting that Brigitte Macron is a person assigned male at birth has existed since her husband's first electoral victory in 2017.
This latest legal outcome in France is concurrent with the Macrons initiating a defamation lawsuit in the US against conservative commentator Candace Owens, who has repeatedly shared analogous false narratives about the French president's wife's identity.
Their complaint alleges that Owens disregarded all credible evidence contradicting her allegations in favour of amplify the voices of notorious conspiracy peddlers.
Owens has often echoed these claims on her digital program and social media channels, and in March 2024 stated that she would bet her whole career on her conviction that Mrs. Macron is biologically male.
Brigitte Macron initially encountered her now-husband when she taught at his secondary school.
The two tied the knot in 2007, when the man who would become president was 29 and she was in her mid-50s.
