Ten sentenced of cyber-bullying 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 disseminating fabrications regarding her sex and sexuality, in addition to publishing hurtful comments about the couple's age disparity of 24 years.

The court delivered suspended prison sentences of a maximum of eight months to the convicted individuals. The detailed judgment has yet to be released.

A longstanding false narrative suggesting that Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman has existed since her husband's initial election in 2017.

This latest legal outcome in France comes as the Macrons engaging in a libel case in the US against political commentator Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted analogous false narratives about the first lady's biological sex.

Their legal filing contends that Owens ignored substantial counter-evidence contradicting her allegations choosing instead to amplify the voices of notorious conspiracy peddlers.

Owens has regularly repeated these assertions on her podcast and social networks, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would risk all her credibility on her conviction that Mrs. Macron is biologically male.

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

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