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

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

The accused individuals faced allegations of disseminating fabrications regarding her sex and sexual orientation, in addition to making malicious remarks about the couple's age disparity of 24 years.

The court delivered suspended jail terms of a maximum of eight months to the convicted individuals. The detailed judgment has not yet been published.

A circulating false narrative alleging that Brigitte Macron is a trans woman has spread widely since her husband's rise to the presidency in 2017.

This Monday's court decision in France is concurrent with the Macrons pursuing a defamation lawsuit in the United States of America against political commentator Candace Owens, who has also voiced analogous false narratives about the first lady's gender.

Their complaint alleges that Owens disregarded any factual proof contradicting her allegations choosing instead to amplify the voices of notorious conspiracy peddlers.

Owens has frequently reiterated these allegations on her digital program and social networks, and in March 2024 declared that she would bet her whole career on her conviction that Mrs. Macron is biologically male.

Brigitte Macron initially encountered 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 54.