Ten convicted of digital abuse directed at Brigitte Macron
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A court in Paris has convicted ten people for carrying out the cyber-bullying of Brigitte Macron, the partner of France's leader, Emmanuel Macron.
The accused individuals faced charges of disseminating untruths regarding her gender and sexuality, in addition to publishing malicious remarks about the couple's significant age difference.
The court issued suspended prison sentences of a maximum of eight months to the convicted individuals. The full ruling has still to be made public.
A longstanding conspiracy theory suggesting that Brigitte Macron is a trans woman has existed since her husband's first electoral victory in 2017.
This latest legal outcome in France coincides with the Macrons initiating a defamation lawsuit in the United States of America against right-wing influencer Candace Owens, who has repeatedly shared analogous false narratives about the Brigitte Macron's biological sex.
Their legal filing contends that Owens disregarded any factual proof contradicting her allegations opting to amplify the voices of notorious conspiracy peddlers.
Owens has frequently reiterated these allegations on her digital program 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 first met her future husband when she worked as an educator at his lycée.
The two married in 2007, when the then-29-year-old Emmanuel Macron was 29 and she was 54.
