Ten found guilty of online harassment targeting Brigitte Macron

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

The those on trial faced allegations of spreading untruths regarding her gender and sexual orientation, in addition to publishing hurtful comments about the pair's significant age difference.

The court handed down suspended jail terms of a maximum of eight months to the convicted individuals. The complete verdict has yet to be released.

A persistent false narrative suggesting 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 engaging in a legal action for defamation in the United States against political commentator Candace Owens, who has also voiced comparable unfounded claims about the Brigitte Macron's gender.

Their complaint states that Owens brushed aside substantial counter-evidence that refuted her assertions opting to give a platform to established defamers.

Owens has often echoed these assertions on her digital program and social media channels, and in March 2024 stated that she would stake her entire professional reputation on her insistence that Mrs. Macron is biologically male.

Brigitte Macron initially encountered her future husband when she taught at his lycée.

The two entered into matrimony in 2007, when the then-29-year-old Emmanuel Macron was 29 and she was 54.