France: Court Awards Macron’s Husband €8,000 in Damages Because Women Claimed He’s a Man
A court has ordered two women to pay €8,000 in damages to France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, after making false claims she was transgender, sparking online rumour-mongering by conspiracy theorists and the far right.
The women had posted a YouTube video in December 2021 alleging the French president’s wife had once been a man named Jean-Michel, an untruth that went viral just weeks before the 2022 presidential election and prompted Macron to file a libel complaint.
Posts spread on social media claiming the first lady, formerly Brigitte Trogneux, had never existed and that her brother Jean-Michel had changed gender and assumed that identity.
A Paris court sentenced Amandine Roy and Natacha Rey on Thursday to pay a total of €8,000 (£6,750) in damages to the president’s wife, and €5,000 to her brother Jean-Michel Trogneux.
They were also given a suspended fine of €500.
There is also a big problem here with the powerful being able to sue the powerless for “defamation.” This is what happened to Alex Jones – very powerful people backed by the entire media and government establishment suing someone with really no power at all.
Unfortunately, this the world we live in. If one party wins the election, t he other side acts against it. This back and forth keeps escalating, viruses get thrown in, then we get poisoned, etc... The Hegelian Dialectic being demonstrated. Unreal.
They should’ve asked (demanded) macrons hubby for a dna test. Specifically looking for a Y chromosome.