A group of ten found guilty of online harassment against Brigitte Macron

A Paris court has ruled against ten people for engaging in the cyber-bullying of Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President, Emmanuel Macron.

The accused individuals faced accusations of circulating untruths regarding her sex and sexual orientation, in addition to posting defamatory statements about the pair's age disparity of 24 years.

The court handed down suspended jail terms of up to eight months to the convicted individuals. The full ruling has still to be made public.

A persistent false narrative claiming that Brigitte Macron is a trans woman has spread widely since her husband's initial election in 2017.

This latest legal outcome in France coincides with the Macrons engaging in a defamation lawsuit in the US against conservative commentator Candace Owens, who has repeatedly shared comparable unfounded claims about the first lady's biological sex.

Their legal filing alleges that Owens brushed aside any factual proof disproving her claim in favour of amplify the voices of notorious conspiracy peddlers.

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

Brigitte Macron originally became acquainted with her current spouse when she was a teacher at his lycée.

The pair married in 2007, when the future French president was 29 and she was 54.