The Paris Criminal Court sentenced two women to financial penalties on Thursday for spreading transphobic hoaxes on social media about Brigitte Macron, wife of French President Emmanuel Macron.
The two women will have to compensate Brigitte Macron, 71, with 8,000 euros and another 5,000 to his brother, Jean Michel Trogneux. They also received a 500 euro fine exempt from payment conditionally. The sentence came after the trial hearing, which took place last June, for a series of statements they disclosed in 2021 in which they assured that Brigitte Macron is reportedly a transgender woman and that his original name would be Jean Michel Trogneux, that is to say the identity of his brother.
Brigitte Macron’s lawyer, Jean Enocchi, told BFMTV that “these totally fanciful statements” have been taken up “all over the world”, so he has instructions to act against them “in France and abroad”.
The incident took place during a four-hour conversation on the YouTube platform between a supposed media outlet and a self-proclaimed “self-taught independent journalist.” Macron himself Last March, he denounced the spread of this type of hoax. about his wife. “The worst thing about fake news and made-up scenarios, with people ending up believing them, is that they also affect your private life,” he said.
