Ten convicted of cyber-bullying targeting Brigitte Macron
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A French judicial body has convicted ten people for engaging in the cyber-bullying of Brigitte Macron, the partner of French President, Emmanuel Macron.
The defendants faced allegations of spreading fabrications regarding her gender and sexual orientation, in addition to making defamatory statements about the pair's significant age difference.
The court delivered suspended prison sentences of a maximum of eight months to the convicted individuals. The complete verdict has yet to be released.
A persistent conspiracy theory alleging that Brigitte Macron is a person assigned male at birth has existed since her husband's rise to the presidency in 2017.
This recent ruling in France is concurrent with the Macrons engaging in a legal action for defamation in the United States of America against conservative commentator Candace Owens, who has repeatedly shared similar conspiracy theories about the first lady's gender.
Their lawsuit states that Owens brushed aside any factual proof disproving her claim opting to amplify the voices of notorious conspiracy peddlers.
Owens has often echoed these claims on her digital program and online platforms, and in March 2024 declared that she would stake her entire professional reputation on her belief that Mrs. Macron was born a man.
Brigitte Macron first met her now-husband when she was a teacher at his high school.
The two entered into matrimony in 2007, when the then-29-year-old Emmanuel Macron was 29 and she was 54.
