A group of ten convicted of online harassment targeting Brigitte Macron
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A court in Paris has convicted ten people for carrying out the digital intimidation of Brigitte Macron, the partner of the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.
The those on trial faced allegations of disseminating untruths regarding her sex and sexual orientation, in addition to publishing malicious remarks about the husband and wife's 24-year age gap.
The court handed down suspended prison sentences of as much as eight months to the perpetrators. The detailed judgment has not yet been published.
A circulating unfounded claim claiming that Brigitte Macron is a person assigned male at birth has been in circulation since her husband's first electoral victory in 2017.
This recent ruling in France comes as the Macrons pursuing a legal action for defamation in the United States of America against conservative commentator Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted comparable unfounded claims about the first lady's gender.
Their legal filing states that Owens brushed aside substantial counter-evidence contradicting her allegations choosing instead to platforming known conspiracy theorists.
Owens has often echoed these allegations on her digital program and social networks, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would risk all her credibility on her insistence that Mrs. Macron was born a man.
Brigitte Macron initially encountered her now-husband when she was a teacher at his secondary school.
The couple married in 2007, when the man who would become president was 29 and she was 54.
