Ten individuals found guilty of online harassment directed at Brigitte Macron

A court in Paris has found guilty ten people for engaging in the online harassment of Brigitte Macron, the partner of French President, Emmanuel Macron.

The those on trial faced allegations of circulating untruths regarding her gender identity and sexuality, in addition to publishing malicious remarks about the couple's 24-year age gap.

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

A longstanding unfounded claim suggesting that Brigitte Macron is a person assigned male at birth has existed since her husband's first electoral victory in 2017.

This latest legal outcome in France coincides with the Macrons engaging in a libel case in the United States of America against political commentator Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted comparable unfounded claims about the French president's wife's biological sex.

Their complaint states that Owens disregarded substantial counter-evidence that refuted her assertions opting to give a platform to established defamers.

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

Brigitte Macron first met her now-husband when she worked as an educator at his high school.

The two entered into matrimony in 2007, when the man who would become president was 29 and she was approximately 54 years old.