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French first lady steps up legal battle in gender rumours case: lawyer
ÎLE-DE-FRANCE, FRANCE, JUL 14 – Brigitte Macron seeks justice at France's highest court after an appeals court overturned defamation convictions related to false gender-based claims, following a viral YouTube video in 2021.
- On Monday, France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron escalated her defamation case to the Court de Cassation, after convictions were overturned last week.
- The case began with a libel complaint after a viral December 2021 video, and centers on a baseless conspiracy theory about her gender.
- In the four-hour video, defendant Amandine Roy interviewed Natacha Rey, and last September a lower court found both women guilty and ordered fines.
- On Thursday, the Paris appeals court overturned earlier convictions and Jean-Michel Trogneux filed a parallel appeal.
- The viral spread among US conspiracy theorists illustrates gender-based smears targeting public figures.
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In France, two women have been acquitted who have spread false rumors about Brigitte Macron's alleged transidentity. Now, the Presidential Gatt continues to prosecute the two. False information has been circulated in online services over and over since 2017. Above all, they have rushed into anti-government circles. Brigitte Macron had filed a lawsuit for this in January 2022, her three children and her brother joined the lawsuit.In the case that…
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Brigitte Macron, the wife of the French president, addresses the country's highest court after the acquittal of the Paris Court of Appeal.
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