Ten sentenced of cyber-bullying targeting Brigitte Macron

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A Paris court has found guilty ten people for perpetrating the online harassment of Brigitte Macron, the wife of France's leader, Emmanuel Macron.

The those on trial faced charges of disseminating fabrications regarding her sex and sexual orientation, in addition to making defamatory statements about the couple's significant age difference.

The court issued suspended jail terms of a maximum of eight months to the perpetrators. The complete verdict has not yet been published.

A longstanding conspiracy theory alleging that Brigitte Macron is a trans woman 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 United States against right-wing influencer Candace Owens, who has also voiced comparable unfounded claims about the Brigitte Macron's gender.

Their legal filing states that Owens ignored all credible evidence that refuted her assertions opting to give a platform to established defamers.

Owens has regularly repeated these assertions on her digital program and social media channels, and in March 2024 declared that she would bet her whole career on her insistence that Mrs. Macron was born a man.

Brigitte Macron initially encountered her current spouse when she was a teacher at his lycée.

The pair entered into matrimony in 2007, when the then-29-year-old Emmanuel Macron was 29 and she was in her mid-50s.

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