A group of ten convicted of online harassment targeting Brigitte Macron
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A court in Paris has ruled against ten people for perpetrating the digital intimidation of Brigitte Macron, the partner of France's leader, Emmanuel Macron.
The accused individuals faced accusations of disseminating false claims regarding her sex and sexual orientation, in addition to making defamatory statements about the husband and wife's significant age difference.
The court delivered suspended jail terms of as much as eight months to the defendants. The complete verdict has yet to be released.
A longstanding conspiracy theory suggesting that Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman has been in circulation since her husband's rise to the presidency in 2017.
This latest legal outcome in France is concurrent with the Macrons pursuing a legal action for defamation in the United States of America against political commentator Candace Owens, who has also voiced comparable unfounded claims about the French president's wife's identity.
Their lawsuit alleges that Owens disregarded all credible evidence that refuted her assertions choosing instead to platforming known conspiracy theorists.
Owens has regularly repeated these allegations on her digital program and social media channels, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would stake her entire professional reputation on her insistence that Mrs. Macron was born a man.
Brigitte Macron originally became acquainted with her future husband when she worked as an educator at his secondary school.
The pair tied the knot in 2007, when the man who would become president was 29 and she was in her mid-50s.
