A group of ten sentenced of digital abuse directed at Brigitte Macron

A Paris court has convicted ten people for carrying out the cyber-bullying of Brigitte Macron, the partner of France's leader, Emmanuel Macron.

The accused individuals faced accusations of circulating false claims regarding her gender identity and sexual orientation, in addition to making defamatory statements about the couple's 24-year age gap.

The court issued conditional custodial sentences of a maximum of eight months to the convicted individuals. The complete verdict has not yet been published.

A persistent unfounded claim alleging that Brigitte Macron is a trans woman has existed since her husband's rise to the presidency in 2017.

This latest legal outcome in France is concurrent with the Macrons initiating a libel case in the United States of America against conservative commentator Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted similar conspiracy theories about the French president's wife's biological sex.

Their complaint states that Owens ignored all credible evidence disproving her claim in favour of give a platform to established defamers.

Owens has frequently reiterated 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 is in fact a man.

Brigitte Macron originally became acquainted with her future husband when she was a teacher at his secondary school.

The couple married in 2007, when the then-29-year-old Emmanuel Macron was 29 and she was approximately 54 years old.