{"id":36674,"date":"2025-10-27T15:51:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/in-france-ten-people-are-on-trial-over-online-posts-claiming-brigitte-macron-is-a-man\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T15:51:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:51:23","slug":"in-france-ten-people-are-on-trial-over-online-posts-claiming-brigitte-macron-is-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/in-france-ten-people-are-on-trial-over-online-posts-claiming-brigitte-macron-is-a-man\/","title":{"rendered":"In France, ten people are on trial over online posts claiming Brigitte Macron is a man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Paris, ten individuals have appeared in court over cyberbullying against Brigitte Macron, accused of spreading malicious comments claiming she is a man. Among the accused are a teacher, an IT specialist, and an elected official, with the trial set to last two days.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2025%2F10%2F27%2F1761579478-2586-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"In France, ten people are on trial over online posts claiming Brigitte Macron is a man\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In Paris, ten people appeared in court on charges of cyberbullying Brigitte Macron. They allegedly wrote &quot;malicious&quot; comments claiming that the first lady of France is a man, UNN reports with reference to Sky News.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>Emmanuel Macron&#039;s wife has long been the subject of conspiracy theories, according to which she was born a man named Jean-Michel Trogneux (her brother&#039;s name) and took the name Brigitte as a transgender woman.<\/p>\n<p>Eight men and two women are accused of publishing posts repeating these claims. These people also point to the 24-year age difference with her husband and call it &quot;pedophilia.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The defendants, aged 41 to 60, include a teacher, an IT specialist, an elected official, and a woman who presents herself as a media and advertising executive.<\/p>\n<p>The trial, which is expected to begin on Monday, will last two days and will take place after the Macrons filed a defamation lawsuit in the US this summer over the repetition of these claims by conservative influencer Candace Owens.<\/p>\n<p>The French president said that filing a lawsuit against Ms. Owens was aimed at &quot;protecting his honor.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Macron and her brother also won another defamation case in France last year against two women who were initially ordered to pay damages and a fine.<\/p>\n<h2>Addition<\/h2>\n<p>In one of the gyms in France, they mocked the &quot;slap&quot; that President Emmanuel Macron allegedly received from his wife Brigitte during a trip to Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>The gym displayed a banner with a picture of Macron with an alleged scratch on his forehead and a call to sign up for self-defense courses.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Is your wife beating you? Sign up for our self-defense courses!&quot; &#8211; reads the post next to the banner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Paris, ten individuals have appeared in court over cyberbullying against Brigitte Macron, accused of spreading malicious comments claiming she is a man. Among the accused are a teacher, an IT specialist, and an elected official, with the trial set to last two days. In Paris, ten people appeared in court on charges of cyberbullying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}