10 people face trial accused of cyberbullying French president's wife Brigitte Macron

Ten people will go on trial on Monday over cyberbullying of Brigitte Macron after they allegedly made “malicious” comments online spreading claims that President Emmanuel Macron 's wife is a man. The Paris prosecutor’s office said the eight men and two women are accused of spreading “numerous malicious comments" online about the first lady's gender and “sexuality” and of mentioning her age gap with her husband as “paedophilia.” Aged between 41 and 60, some of the defendants are very active on the social media, with posts sometimes cumulating dozens of thousands of views. A woman presenting herself as a medium and an advertising executive, whose X account has since been suspended, are considered as having played a major role in spreading the rumor. Others include an elected official, a teacher and a computer scientist. The Macrons have for years been dogged by conspiracy theories that Brigitte was born a man named Jean-Michel Trogneux, who supposedly then took the name Brigitte as a transgender woman. Jean-Michel Trogneux is the name of Brigitte’s brother. The two-day triWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times