Ten sentenced of cyber-bullying targeting Brigitte Macron

A Paris court has convicted ten people for carrying out the online harassment of Brigitte Macron, the partner of French President, Emmanuel Macron.

The those on trial faced allegations of circulating fabrications regarding her sex and sexual orientation, in addition to publishing defamatory statements about the pair's significant age difference.

The court delivered suspended prison sentences of a maximum of eight months to the defendants. The detailed judgment has still to be made public.

A circulating conspiracy theory suggesting that Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman has spread widely since her husband's initial election in 2017.

This latest legal outcome in France is concurrent with the Macrons initiating a libel case in the United States of America against political commentator Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted similar conspiracy theories about the first lady's identity.

Their legal filing contends that Owens disregarded any factual proof disproving her claim in favour of amplify the voices of notorious conspiracy peddlers.

Owens has often echoed these assertions on her digital program and social networks, and in March 2024 stated that she would stake her entire professional reputation on her conviction that Mrs. Macron was born a man.

Brigitte Macron first met her future husband when she taught at his high school.

The two entered into matrimony in 2007, when the then-29-year-old Emmanuel Macron was 29 and she was approximately 54 years old.