A group of ten sentenced of cyber-bullying directed at Brigitte Macron
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A French judicial body has ruled against ten people for carrying out the online harassment of Brigitte Macron, the partner of France's leader, Emmanuel Macron.
The those on trial faced allegations of circulating false claims regarding her gender and sexual orientation, in addition to making hurtful comments about the pair's age disparity of 24 years.
The court delivered suspended prison sentences of a maximum of eight months to the defendants. The complete verdict has still to be made public.
A longstanding unfounded claim alleging that Brigitte Macron is a person assigned male at birth has existed since her husband's initial election in 2017.
This recent ruling in France is concurrent with the Macrons initiating a libel case in the US against right-wing influencer Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted comparable unfounded claims about the first lady's biological sex.
Their lawsuit states that Owens ignored all credible evidence contradicting her allegations in favour of give a platform to established defamers.
Owens has regularly repeated these assertions on her podcast and social networks, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would risk all her credibility on her insistence that Mrs. Macron is in fact a man.
Brigitte Macron first met her current spouse when she worked as an educator at his secondary school.
The couple tied the knot in 2007, when the then-29-year-old Emmanuel Macron was 29 and she was 54.