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A French judicial body has convicted ten people for engaging in the digital intimidation of Brigitte Macron, the spouse of the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.
The accused individuals faced allegations of circulating false claims regarding her gender and sexual orientation, in addition to publishing hurtful comments about the husband and wife's significant age difference.
The court delivered conditional custodial sentences of as much as eight months to the defendants. The detailed judgment has yet to be released.
A longstanding false narrative 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 is concurrent with the Macrons engaging in a libel case in the US against political commentator Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted similar conspiracy theories about the French president's wife's gender.
Their complaint contends that Owens disregarded all credible evidence that refuted her assertions opting to platforming known conspiracy theorists.
Owens has frequently reiterated these allegations on her podcast and social media channels, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would risk all her credibility on her conviction that Mrs. Macron is in fact a man.
Brigitte Macron originally became acquainted with her future husband 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.
