A group of ten convicted of cyber-bullying directed at Brigitte Macron

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

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

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

A persistent unfounded claim alleging that Brigitte Macron is a person assigned male at birth has existed since her husband's initial election in 2017.

This recent ruling in France is concurrent with the Macrons initiating a defamation lawsuit in the United States against political commentator Candace Owens, who has likewise promoted analogous false narratives about the first lady's biological sex.

Their complaint contends that Owens disregarded any factual proof that refuted her assertions opting to give a platform to established defamers.

Owens has frequently reiterated these assertions on her podcast and social media channels, and in March 2024 proclaimed that she would bet her whole career on her belief that Mrs. Macron was born a man.

Brigitte Macron initially encountered her current spouse when she worked as an educator at his secondary school.

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