Ten individuals convicted of digital abuse targeting Brigitte Macron
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A Paris court has ruled against ten people for engaging in the online harassment of Brigitte Macron, the wife of the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.
The accused individuals faced accusations of disseminating false claims regarding her sex and sexuality, in addition to posting hurtful comments about the pair's 24-year age gap.
The court issued suspended prison sentences of as much as eight months to the convicted individuals. The complete verdict has yet to be released.
A persistent unfounded claim suggesting that Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman has been in circulation 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 US against conservative commentator Candace Owens, who has also voiced analogous false narratives about the French president's wife's biological sex.
Their legal filing alleges that Owens ignored all credible evidence contradicting her allegations opting to amplify the voices of notorious conspiracy peddlers.
Owens has regularly repeated these allegations on her digital program and online platforms, and in March 2024 stated that she would risk all her credibility on her conviction that Mrs. Macron is in fact a man.
Brigitte Macron initially encountered her future husband when she worked as an educator at his lycée.
The couple tied the knot in 2007, when the man who would become president was 29 and she was in her mid-50s.
