A group of ten sentenced of online harassment directed at Brigitte Macron
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A French judicial body has found guilty ten people for carrying out the online harassment of Brigitte Macron, the partner of France's leader, Emmanuel Macron.
The accused individuals faced allegations of circulating false claims regarding her gender identity and sexuality, in addition to posting hurtful comments about the couple's age disparity of 24 years.
The court handed down conditional custodial sentences of a maximum of eight months to the defendants. The detailed judgment has not yet been published.
A longstanding conspiracy theory alleging that Brigitte Macron is a trans woman has been in circulation since her husband's first electoral victory in 2017.
This recent ruling in France comes as the Macrons initiating a libel case in the US against political commentator Candace Owens, who has also voiced similar conspiracy theories about the French president's wife's identity.
Their legal filing contends that Owens disregarded all credible evidence disproving her claim in favour of give a platform to established defamers.
Owens has often echoed these assertions on her digital program and social networks, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would bet her whole career on her insistence that Mrs. Macron was born a man.
Brigitte Macron first met her now-husband when she taught at his secondary school.
The pair entered into matrimony in 2007, when the future French president was 29 and she was approximately 54 years old.
