Ten sentenced of digital abuse targeting Brigitte Macron
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A French judicial body has convicted ten people for carrying out the online harassment of Brigitte Macron, the partner of France's leader, Emmanuel Macron.
The accused individuals faced charges of spreading false claims regarding her gender and sexual orientation, in addition to publishing hurtful comments about the pair's age disparity of 24 years.
The court handed down conditional custodial sentences of as much as eight months to the perpetrators. The detailed judgment has still to be made public.
A longstanding false narrative claiming that Brigitte Macron is a trans woman has been in circulation since her husband's initial election in 2017.
This recent ruling in France is concurrent with the Macrons engaging in a libel case in the US against political commentator Candace Owens, who has repeatedly shared comparable unfounded claims about the Brigitte Macron's gender.
Their legal filing alleges that Owens disregarded any factual proof that refuted her assertions choosing instead to platforming known conspiracy theorists.
Owens has often echoed these allegations on her digital program and social media channels, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would risk all her credibility 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 lycée.
The couple tied the knot in 2007, when the man who would become president was 29 and she was in her mid-50s.
