Posted on 01/05/2026 6:18:54 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
A Paris court found Monday 10 people guilty of cyberbullying France's first lady, Brigitte Macron, by spreading false online claims about her gender and sexuality, including allegations she was born a man.
One defendant was sentenced to six months in prison, while eight were handed suspended sentences between two and eight months. All 10 were mandated to attend cyberbullying awareness training.
The court pointed to "particularly degrading, insulting, and malicious" comments referring to false claims regarding alleged trans identity and alleged pedo criminality targeting Brigitte Macron. "Repeated publications have had cumulative harmful effects," the court said.
The defendants, eight men and two women aged 41 to 65, were accused of posting "numerous malicious comments" falsely claiming that President Emmanuel Macron 's wife was born a man and linking the 24-year age gap with her husband to pedophilia. Some of the posts were viewed tens of thousands of times.
Brigitte Macron didn't attend the two-day trial in October. Speaking on TF1 national television Sunday, she said she launched legal proceedings to "set an example" in the fight against harassment.
Her lawyer, Jean Ennochi, said Monday "what is important is that there are immediate cyberbullying awareness trainings, and for some of the defendants, a ban on using their social media accounts."
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Like big mike she is a he
Does the fine double if they accuse Mrs. Macron of being a reptilian alien?
Lol.
How do you “bully” someone who has a million times more power than you?
Has a DNA test been conducted on it?
That's a sanitized version of "to intimidate"; or "let that be a lesson to ya".
What happened to “liberté, égalité, fraternité”? Is it time for another revolution?
Brigitte is Finkle!
If you don’t want you or your spouse to be mocked, don’t take a political job. Go be a clerk or a bus driver.
In the states we have the 1A to protect the mockers. But I guess elsewhere you’d better keep your mouth shut.
Anyway, Brigitte Macron can’t complain. His detractors have been punished.
Oops! I meant “Her detractors” there.
In Europe, “liberty” means public nudity.
There are Muslims in France who say a lot worse about Macron and his wife. Will they ever be brought up on charges?
So no one was able to lift 'her' skirt to present the evidence. Show trials.
It’s not enough redress. She should be permitted to smack the defendants around in public, like she did her husband
I think she looks more Simian. Very old Simian. ;)
Toughen up beotch.
Sticks and stones,
May break my bones,
But words will get you a conviction and a six month prison sentence.
Good one!
This is what “punching down” looks like—when one of the most powerful people in the world starts throwing average citizens in jail because they do not like what the average citizens said online.
You can’t of course; like other leftist laws it amounts to “no questioning the nobility.”
Like “victim” (class of people you must pay and who can do whatever they want to you) and “justice” (punishment against people who did no wrong in retribution to people who suffered no harm) and “our democracy” (government chosen by an elite working against the citizens of the country) the left only inverts and perverts meaning, never creates.
A guillotine is the only way to figure out whether the claims about Mrs. Macron are true or not.
Trust but verify.
Lol.
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