A group of ten convicted of digital abuse targeting Brigitte Macron
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A court in Paris has found guilty ten people for engaging in the digital intimidation of Brigitte Macron, the wife of the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.
The accused individuals faced allegations of circulating false claims regarding her gender and sexual orientation, in addition to posting malicious remarks about the husband and wife's 24-year age gap.
The court delivered conditional custodial sentences of as much as eight months to the perpetrators. The full ruling has not yet been published.
A persistent false narrative suggesting that Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman has been in circulation since her husband's first electoral victory in 2017.
This Monday's court decision in France comes as the Macrons engaging in a defamation lawsuit in the United States of America against political commentator Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted comparable unfounded claims about the Brigitte Macron's gender.
Their lawsuit states that Owens ignored all credible evidence that refuted her assertions opting to platforming known conspiracy theorists.
Owens has regularly repeated these assertions on her digital program and social media channels, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would stake her entire professional reputation on her conviction that Mrs. Macron is in fact a man.
Brigitte Macron first met her now-husband when she was a teacher at his secondary school.
The two entered into matrimony in 2007, when the then-29-year-old Emmanuel Macron was 29 and she was approximately 54 years old.
