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Two women have been sentenced for spreading the rumor that Brigitte Macron was a transgender in France, according to reports.
It’s an infox that has gone viral, particularly in 2021.
While the false information is regularly circulating on social networks, the two women were sentenced in France on Thursday for having largely contributed to it.
They tried to prove that the First Lady doesn’t exist, and that it’s really her brother Jean-Michel, who would have had a sex change.
According to RFI, they have gone so far as to circulate family photos and point to alleged evidence of surgery.
At the hearing in June, Brigitte Macron’s lawyer stressed the extent of the damage. The video went around the world.
Even recently, it was circulating in far-right circles in the United States, in the midst of the presidential campaign.
The two authors were fined a suspended sentence of 500 euros and ordered to pay 8,000 euros in damages to the president’s wife and 5,000 euros to her brother Jean-Michel.
