A group of ten sentenced of online harassment directed at Brigitte Macron

A French judicial body has convicted ten people for engaging in the cyber-bullying of Brigitte Macron, the partner of France's leader, Emmanuel Macron.

The accused individuals faced accusations of disseminating untruths regarding her gender and sexuality, in addition to posting malicious remarks about the husband and wife's significant age difference.

The court issued conditional custodial sentences of as much as eight months to the defendants. The complete verdict has not yet been published.

A circulating false narrative suggesting that Brigitte Macron is a person assigned male at birth has spread widely since her husband's first electoral victory in 2017.

This recent ruling in France coincides with the Macrons pursuing a libel case in the United States against conservative commentator Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted analogous false narratives about the French president's wife's identity.

Their legal filing contends that Owens brushed aside all credible evidence disproving her claim opting to give a platform to established defamers.

Owens has frequently reiterated these allegations on her podcast and social media channels, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would risk all her credibility on her conviction that Mrs. Macron is in fact a man.

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

The two entered into matrimony in 2007, when the future French president was 29 and she was in her mid-50s.