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ER Editor: Apologies for the choice of BBC article. Everybody with eyes can see Brigitte’s a guy, and that we haven’t seen ‘her’ and Emmanuel, the real ones, for some time. Twitter reaction —
Ten people who claimed Brigitte Macron was born a man have been convicted of ‘cyberbullying’ in Paris.
Meanwhile, she still hasn’t been convicted of assaulting her husband on their private jet, nor grooming him as a teenager.
Funny how justice works. 🤮🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/KZHVqK0hhv
— Peter Lloyd (@Suffragent_) January 5, 2026
Useful retrospective comment —
🇫🇷 France 2025: Eleven citizens on trial — not for violence, not for hate — but for retweeting jokes.
Their “crime”? Sharing posts inspired by an unauthorized biography of Brigitte Macron that was never charged with defamation, nor proven false in court.
Homes raided. Phones… pic.twitter.com/mX8keFFm58
— Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK) October 29, 2025
Today, in France, eleven anonymous French citizens are being tried for “cyberbullying” for merely reposting on X, in one way or another, publications inspired by Becoming Brigitte, my unauthorized biography of Brigitte Macron, which has never been convicted (or even prosecuted)… https://t.co/3oGJ94d6xF
— Xavier Poussard (@XavierPoussard) October 28, 2025
For our coverage of Candace Owens dealing with the Brigitte topic, see HERE.
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Ten found guilty of cyber-bullying Brigitte Macron
HUGH SCHOFIELD & KATHRYN ARMSTRONG for BBC
Ten people have been found guilty of cyber-bullying Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, by a Paris court.
The defendants were accused of spreading false claims about her gender and sexuality, as well as making “malicious remarks” about the 24-year age gap between the couple.
EPAMost of the defendants were handed suspended prison sentences of up to eight months, but one was jailed immediately for failing to attend court. Some had their social media accounts suspended.
The judge said the eight men and two women had acted with a clear desire to do harm to Brigitte Macron, making remarks online that were degrading and insulting. (ER: Good grief, is that all?)
Two of the defendants – self-styled independent journalist Natacha Rey and internet fortune-teller Amandine Roy – were found guilty of slander in 2024 for claiming that France’s first lady had never existed.
They said her brother Jean-Michel Trogneux had changed gender and started using her name.
They were later cleared on appeal. The argument used by the appeals court in clearing them was that saying someone had changed gender was not necessarily an “attack on their honour”.
The Macrons are now taking that case to the high court of appeal.
“The most important things are the prevention courses and the suspension of some of the accounts” of the perpetrators, Jean Ennochi, Brigitte Macron’s lawyer, said after the verdict was handed down, the AFP news agency reported.
Tiphaine Auzière, Brigitte Macron’s daughter from a previous marriage, previously told the trial that the cyber-bullying had negatively affected her mother’s health and living conditions.
She said her mother “has had to be careful about her choices of outfits, of posture… she knows perfectly well that her image will be used to back these theories”.
While her mother had “learned to live with it”, Auzière said, she suffered from the repercussions on her grandchildren who were taunted at school.
Monday’s ruling in France is a forerunner of a much bigger trial due in the US, where the Macrons have filed a defamation lawsuit against right-wing influencer Candace Owens, who has also voiced conspiracy theories about the first lady’s gender.
They alleged that she “disregarded all credible evidence disproving her claim in favour of platforming known conspiracy theorists and proven defamers”.
Owens has regularly repeated the claims on her podcast and social media channels, and in March 2024 stated that she would stake her “entire professional reputation” on her belief that the first lady “is in fact a man”.
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Featured image source, Brigitte close-up: https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2025/12/08/brigitte-macron-qualifie-de-sales-connes-des-militantes-de-noustoutes-ayant-interrompu-un-spectacle-d-ary-abittan_6656534_3224.html
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