Ten found guilty of online harassment 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 those on trial faced allegations of disseminating fabrications regarding her gender and sexual orientation, in addition to publishing defamatory statements about the couple's 24-year age gap.

The court issued suspended prison sentences of as much as eight months to the convicted individuals. The detailed judgment has yet to be released.

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

This latest legal outcome in France is concurrent with the Macrons initiating a defamation lawsuit in the US against political commentator Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted analogous false narratives about the Brigitte Macron's gender.

Their complaint states that Owens brushed aside substantial counter-evidence contradicting her allegations opting to give a platform to established defamers.

Owens has regularly repeated these assertions on her podcast and social networks, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would stake her entire professional reputation on her belief that Mrs. Macron was born a man.

Brigitte Macron first met her current spouse when she worked as an educator at his secondary school.

The two tied the knot in 2007, when the future French president was 29 and she was approximately 54 years old.