Trolls Found Guilty Of Cyberbullying Brigitte Macron After Spreading Rumour She’s Trans

A total of 10 social media users who spread rumours that Brigitte Macron, the wife of Emmanuel Macron, was a ‘man’ have been found guilty of cyberbullying.

The Macrons’ defamation lawsuit against Candace Owens is still active and progressing, but in the meantime, they’re going after internet trolls who make comments about the French first lady being trans and/or a paedophile.

The 10 defendants included eight men and two women, aged 41 to 65. Which is a pretty sad age to be an internet troll, to be fair.

The defendants were handed various sentences, including eight-month suspended sentences or cyberbullying awareness training courses.

Tiphaine Auzière, 41, Brigitte’s younger daughter, told the trial that the phoney allegations harmed her mum’s health.

She said: ‘She’s constantly having to pay attention to what she wears, how she holds herself because she knows that her image can be distorted.’

Interestingly, two women who Macron had sued previously for defamation got let off after the courts ruled that the women’s claims were protected under free speech.

I suppose there’s a difference between making controversial claims and cyberbullying a person whilst making those claims?

That could explain why Candace Owens has been doubling, tripling and quadrupling down on her claims that Brigitte Macron was born a man, despite facing a very expensive lawsuit for it; she needs to prove that she sincerely believes the theory in the hopes that it will protect her from a libel charge.

If Owens can prove that she genuinely believes what she’s saying, even if it’s shown to be incorrect, her views could be protected under free speech laws.

Will be interesting to see how that plays out. For the rest of us – best to keep those Twitter fingers to ourselves.

For the time Emmanuel Macron was slapped by a guy pretending to be a support of his in a crowd, click HERE. Harsh.