"A Parisian court has found 10 individuals, including a French gallerist, guilty of cyberbullying France's First Lady Brigitte Macron in a crackdown against a widespread conspiracy that she was born male. Among the individuals convicted on Monday, December 5, was 56-year-old art dealer Bertrand Scholler, who is listed as an owner of the gallery 55 Bellechasse, blocks from the Rodin Museum in Paris's 7th arrondissement."
"The group reportedly faced charges stemming from social media posts supporting a claim that Macron was born a man by the name Jean-Michel Trogneux, which is actually her elder brother's name. According to , the court cited "particularly degrading, insulting, and malicious" comments as impetus for the charges. Some of the comments reportedly scrutinized Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron's relationship as stemming from pedophilia, pointing to the fact that the 15-year-old future president met his wife-to-be when she was his 39-year-old drama teacher."
A Paris court convicted ten individuals, including 56-year-old art dealer Bertrand Scholler, for cyberbullying France's First Lady Brigitte Macron over a widely circulated conspiracy claiming she was born male. Defendants posted social media messages alleging Macron was born under the name Jean-Michel Trogneux, which is actually her elder brother’s name. The court cited "particularly degrading, insulting, and malicious" comments, some alleging the Macrons' relationship stemmed from pedophilia because Emmanuel Macron met Brigitte when he was 15 and she was 39. Convicted individuals face six-month social media suspensions, €600 fines each, and a combined €10,000 payment to Brigitte Macron. Defendants said some posts were intended as jokes or debate. The Macrons are also pursuing a separate defamation case in Delaware against Candace Owens.
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