Ten sentenced of online harassment against Brigitte Macron
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A French judicial body has found guilty ten people for perpetrating the online harassment of Brigitte Macron, the wife of the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.
The those on trial faced accusations of circulating untruths regarding her sex and sexuality, in addition to making defamatory statements about the pair's 24-year age gap.
The court delivered suspended prison sentences of a maximum of eight months to the perpetrators. The complete verdict has yet to be released.
A circulating conspiracy theory claiming that Brigitte Macron is a person assigned male at birth has been in circulation since her husband's first electoral victory in 2017.
This recent ruling in France coincides with the Macrons initiating a defamation lawsuit in the US against right-wing influencer Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted comparable unfounded claims about the Brigitte Macron's biological sex.
Their lawsuit states that Owens ignored all credible evidence contradicting her allegations opting to platforming known conspiracy theorists.
Owens has regularly repeated these assertions on her digital program and online platforms, and in March 2024 declared that she would stake her entire professional reputation on her insistence that Mrs. Macron is biologically male.
Brigitte Macron initially encountered her now-husband when she worked as an educator at his lycée.
The couple married in 2007, when the future French president was 29 and she was 54.
