A group of ten found guilty of digital abuse targeting Brigitte Macron
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A court in Paris has found guilty ten people for engaging in the online harassment of Brigitte Macron, the spouse of French President, Emmanuel Macron.
The accused individuals faced charges of circulating untruths regarding her sex and sexual orientation, in addition to making malicious remarks about the couple's age disparity of 24 years.
The court handed down conditional custodial sentences of a maximum of eight months to the perpetrators. The complete verdict has not yet been published.
A circulating conspiracy theory alleging that Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman has been in circulation since her husband's first electoral victory in 2017.
This recent ruling in France comes as the Macrons pursuing a defamation lawsuit in the United States against conservative commentator Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted comparable unfounded claims about the French president's wife's gender.
Their complaint states that Owens ignored substantial counter-evidence disproving her claim in favour of give a platform to established defamers.
Owens has regularly repeated these claims on her digital program and social media channels, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would stake her entire professional reputation on her belief that Mrs. Macron is biologically male.
Brigitte Macron first met her future husband when she worked as an educator at his high school.
The pair tied the knot in 2007, when the then-29-year-old Emmanuel Macron was 29 and she was in her mid-50s.
