Why insulting Brigitte Macron online can mean prison time in France

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The decision was handed down on Monday 5 January by the judicial court in Paris. The defendants were tried for spreading and relaying rumours about the president's wife, claiming that it would be

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Ten people were convicted of cyberbullying in France for claiming online that Brigitte Macron, wife of the French president Emmanuel Macron, is a man. The defendants, eight men and two women, were convicted for spreading «false» claims that Brigitte is a man and for making «malicious» comments about the Macron, according to [...]

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A Tarbais is one of the ten people convicted by the Paris Correctional Court for cyberharassment on Brigitte Macron. The man is accused of relaying a rumor about the First...