Ten sentenced of digital abuse directed at Brigitte Macron

A Paris court has found guilty ten people for engaging in the cyber-bullying of Brigitte Macron, the wife of France's leader, Emmanuel Macron.

The accused individuals faced allegations of spreading false claims regarding her sex and sexual orientation, in addition to posting defamatory statements about the husband and wife's age disparity of 24 years.

The court handed down suspended jail terms of as much as eight months to the convicted individuals. The detailed judgment has still to be made public.

A longstanding conspiracy theory suggesting that Brigitte Macron is a person assigned male at birth has been in circulation since her husband's first electoral victory in 2017.

This latest legal outcome in France is concurrent with the Macrons initiating a defamation lawsuit in the United States against political commentator Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted analogous false narratives about the first lady's identity.

Their legal filing states that Owens disregarded substantial counter-evidence that refuted her assertions in favour of amplify the voices of notorious conspiracy peddlers.

Owens has regularly repeated these allegations on her show and social media channels, and in March 2024 declared that she would risk all her credibility on her belief that Mrs. Macron was born a man.

Brigitte Macron first met her future husband when she taught at his secondary school.

The two married in 2007, when the future French president was 29 and she was approximately 54 years old.