A group of ten found guilty of cyber-bullying targeting Brigitte Macron

A Paris court has found guilty ten people for perpetrating the cyber-bullying of Brigitte Macron, the wife of the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.

The accused individuals faced accusations of spreading untruths regarding her gender identity and sexuality, in addition to posting malicious remarks about the husband and wife's 24-year age gap.

The court issued suspended prison sentences of as much as eight months to the perpetrators. The full ruling has not yet been published.

A circulating false narrative claiming 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 engaging in a libel case in the United States against right-wing influencer Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted comparable unfounded claims about the Brigitte Macron's biological sex.

Their legal filing contends that Owens ignored any factual proof contradicting her allegations in favour of give a platform to established defamers.

Owens has frequently reiterated these allegations on her show and social networks, 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 future husband when she taught at his high school.

The two married in 2007, when the man who would become president was 29 and she was 54.