Ten people go on trial in Paris for online harassment of Brigitte Macron
Trial is latest phase in legal battle against false claim that French first lady is a man named Jean-Michel Trogneux
Ten people are to go on trial in Paris on Monday for online harassment of Brigitte Macron – the latest phase in a legal battle on both sides of the Atlantic against the false claim that the French first lady is a man named Jean-Michel Trogneux.
The French trial comes after the president, Emmanuel Macron, and his wife filed a defamation lawsuit in the US at the end of July, in connection with a rumour amplified and repeated online that Brigitte Macron was born a man.