"A Paris court has found 10 people guilty of online harassment of the French first lady, Brigitte Macron, by posting or reposting malicious comments on social media that claimed falsely that she was a man. Eight men and two women, aged 41 to 60, including a school sports teacher, an art gallery owner and a publicist, were on Monday given sentences ranging from a compulsory course in understanding online harassment to an eight-month suspended prison sentence."
"All were found guilty of making or sharing malicious comments about Brigitte Macron's gender and sexuality, saying she had been born a man. For some, this included equating her age difference with her husband, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, to paedophilia. The Paris trial is the latest phase in a legal battle on both sides of the Atlantic by the Macrons against the false claim that Brigitte Macron is a man named Jean-Michel Trogneux."
"The Macrons have also filed a US lawsuit for defamation against the conservative podcaster Candace Owens for amplifying and repeating the claim. The US lawsuit states that the accusation Brigitte Macron is a man called Jean-Michel Trogneux is completely false and that Trogneux is in fact Brigitte Macron's older brother. Trogneux, 80, lives in the northern French town of Amiens, where he grew up with Brigitte and their siblings in a family famous for its chocolate business."
A Paris court convicted ten people for online harassment of Brigitte Macron for spreading false claims that she was born a man. Defendants included eight men and two women aged 41 to 60, among them a school sports teacher, an art gallery owner and a publicist. Sentences ranged from compulsory courses on online harassment to an eight-month suspended prison term; one absent defendant received a six-month prison sentence. Some convicted individuals were barred from accessing the social media platforms used to post or repost the comments. The Macrons have pursued related legal action in the US against a podcaster and maintain that Jean-Michel Trogneux is Brigitte Macron's brother.
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