Brigitte Macron appeared in a cassation after the release pronounced Thursday by the Paris Court of Appeal against two women who had spread the rumor on the Internet that the First Lady of France was a transgender woman, said her lawyer to AFP.

Brigitte Macron’s brother also appeared in a cassation, said Jean Ennochi, confirming information from franceinfo. The prosecution was also provided in cassation, according to documents consulted by AFP. Infox about Brigitte Macron had become viral to the United States. The two defendants, Natacha Rey and Amandine Roy, were released concerning 18 articles implicated by Brigitte Macron and her brother. Only a passage referring to a hijacking of a minor entered the field of application of the press law but the court also pronounced a relaxation, this time for the benefit of good faith.

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At first instance, last September, Natacha Rey and Amandine Roy had been found guilty and sentenced to a fine of 500 euros suspended, as well as to pay a total of 8,000 euros in damages to Brigitte Macron, and 5000 euros to his brother Jean-Michel Togneux, both civil parties at the trial.

False information that has become viral in the United States

At the heart of this case, an info resurfaced regularly on social networks since the election of Emmanuel Macron in 2017, according to which Brigitte Macron, born Trogneux, never existed, but that her brother Jean-Michel would have taken this identity after changing sex.

The two women had largely contributed to making it known in 2021, via a long «interview» of more than four hours when the first, the «Medium» Amandine Roy, questioned the second on her YouTube channel, Natacha Rey, “Independent self -taught journalist” on the discovery of this “deception”, “scam”why “State lie”.

In the interview broadcast on YouTube, the two women broadcast photos of Brigitte Macron and her family, mentioned surgical interventions that she would have suffered, claiming that she would not be the mother of her three children and gave personal information about her brother.

False information was exported – in particular and still recently in the United States, where it has become viral on the far right, in the middle of the presidential campaign.

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Several politicians in the world have already paid info-in-character of a transphobic character, such as the former Lady of the United States Michelle Obama, the former American vice-president Kamala Harris or the former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.