A group of ten sentenced of cyber-bullying against Brigitte Macron

A court in Paris has convicted ten people for perpetrating the cyber-bullying of Brigitte Macron, the partner of the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.

The those on trial faced accusations of disseminating false claims regarding her gender identity and sexuality, in addition to publishing hurtful comments about the pair's 24-year age gap.

The court delivered suspended jail terms of as much as eight months to the perpetrators. The detailed judgment has still to be made public.

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

This recent ruling in France coincides with the Macrons pursuing a defamation lawsuit in the US against political commentator Candace Owens, who has repeatedly shared similar conspiracy theories about the first lady's gender.

Their legal filing states that Owens ignored any factual proof that refuted her assertions choosing instead to platforming known conspiracy theorists.

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

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

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