Ten individuals found guilty of cyber-bullying against Brigitte Macron

A Paris court has found guilty ten people for carrying out the digital intimidation of Brigitte Macron, the wife of France's leader, Emmanuel Macron.

The accused individuals faced accusations of circulating fabrications regarding her sex and sexuality, in addition to making defamatory statements about the couple's 24-year age gap.

The court delivered suspended jail terms of as much as eight months to the perpetrators. The complete verdict has still to be made public.

A longstanding false narrative claiming that Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman has been in circulation since her husband's first electoral victory in 2017.

This latest legal outcome in France comes as the Macrons initiating a libel case in the US against conservative commentator Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted comparable unfounded claims about the first lady's biological sex.

Their complaint alleges that Owens disregarded substantial counter-evidence disproving her claim choosing instead to platforming known conspiracy theorists.

Owens has frequently reiterated these assertions on her digital program and social networks, and in March 2024 stated that she would bet her whole career on her insistence that Mrs. Macron was born a man.

Brigitte Macron first met her now-husband when she worked as an educator at his lycée.

The couple tied the knot in 2007, when the then-29-year-old Emmanuel Macron was 29 and she was approximately 54 years old.