A group of ten sentenced of digital abuse against Brigitte Macron

A court in Paris has convicted ten people for engaging in the digital intimidation of Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President, Emmanuel Macron.

The defendants faced accusations of circulating fabrications regarding her gender identity and sexual orientation, in addition to posting defamatory statements about the husband and wife's age disparity of 24 years.

The court handed down suspended jail terms of up to eight months to the convicted individuals. The detailed judgment has not yet been published.

A persistent false narrative claiming that Brigitte Macron is a person assigned male at birth has spread widely since her husband's first electoral victory in 2017.

This Monday's court decision in France coincides with the Macrons pursuing a legal action for defamation in the United States of America against right-wing influencer Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted similar conspiracy theories about the French president's wife's gender.

Their lawsuit contends that Owens ignored substantial counter-evidence disproving her claim opting to give a platform to established defamers.

Owens has regularly repeated these claims on her podcast and online platforms, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would risk all her credibility on her insistence that Mrs. Macron is in fact a man.

Brigitte Macron initially encountered her current spouse when she worked as an educator at his high school.

The couple married in 2007, when the then-29-year-old Emmanuel Macron was 29 and she was in her mid-50s.