A Paris court has found 10 people guilty of cyberbullying Brigitte Macron, wife of President of France Emmanuel Macron, the BBC reports. The judge found that the defendants made false claims about Macron’s gender and sexuality, and “malicious remarks” about the 24-year age gap between Macron and her spouse.
The defendants, eight men and two women, received a range of sentences, including jail time up to eight months and mandatory online harassment awareness training. Five of the defendants will also lose access to their X accounts for six months, according to The New York Times.
Key to the lawsuit is the fringe belief that Brigitte Macron was born a man —
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