A group of ten found guilty of cyber-bullying against Brigitte Macron
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A French judicial body has convicted ten people for perpetrating the cyber-bullying of Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President, Emmanuel Macron.
The accused individuals faced allegations of circulating untruths regarding her gender and sexual orientation, in addition to making hurtful comments about the couple's age disparity of 24 years.
The court issued suspended prison sentences of up to eight months to the defendants. 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 initial election in 2017.
This recent ruling in France is concurrent with the Macrons initiating a defamation lawsuit in the United States against right-wing influencer Candace Owens, who has also voiced analogous false narratives about the first lady's gender.
Their legal filing contends that Owens ignored all credible evidence contradicting her allegations opting to platforming known conspiracy theorists.
Owens has regularly repeated these assertions on her show and online platforms, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would risk all her credibility on her conviction that Mrs. Macron is biologically male.
Brigitte Macron initially encountered her current spouse when she taught at his secondary school.
The pair tied the knot in 2007, when the future French president was 29 and she was 54.