Ten convicted of online harassment against Brigitte Macron
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A Paris court has convicted ten people for carrying out the cyber-bullying of Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President, Emmanuel Macron.
The those on trial faced accusations of spreading untruths regarding her sex and sexual orientation, in addition to posting malicious remarks about the couple's 24-year age gap.
The court delivered suspended jail terms of a maximum of eight months to the perpetrators. The full ruling has not yet been published.
A longstanding conspiracy theory alleging 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 is concurrent with the Macrons engaging in a libel case in the United States of America against conservative commentator Candace Owens, who has also voiced analogous false narratives about the first lady's identity.
Their lawsuit contends that Owens ignored substantial counter-evidence that refuted her assertions opting to amplify the voices of notorious conspiracy peddlers.
Owens has frequently reiterated these claims on her podcast and online platforms, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would risk all her credibility on her belief that Mrs. Macron was born a man.
Brigitte Macron initially encountered her current spouse when she taught at his high school.
The couple married in 2007, when the then-29-year-old Emmanuel Macron was 29 and she was approximately 54 years old.
