Ten convicted of digital abuse directed at Brigitte Macron
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A court in Paris has ruled against ten people for carrying out the digital intimidation 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 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 full ruling has yet to be released.
A circulating conspiracy theory alleging that Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman has spread widely since her husband's rise to the presidency in 2017.
This latest legal outcome in France is concurrent with the Macrons pursuing a libel case in the United States against conservative commentator Candace Owens, who has repeatedly shared analogous false narratives about the French president's wife's gender.
Their legal filing alleges that Owens ignored any factual proof disproving her claim choosing instead to platforming known conspiracy theorists.
Owens has often echoed these claims on her show and social media channels, and in March 2024 stated that she would bet her whole career on her insistence that Mrs. Macron was born a man.
Brigitte Macron initially encountered her future husband when she worked as an educator at his secondary school.
The couple married in 2007, when the then-29-year-old Emmanuel Macron was 29 and she was 54.
