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		</div><p>Ten people have gone on trial accused of cyberbullying Brigitte Macron after they allegedly made “malicious” comments online spreading claims that President Emmanuel Macron’s wife is a man.</p>
<p>Brigitte Macron did not show up at the two-day trial in Paris which started on Monday afternoon.</p>
<p>The Paris prosecutor’s office said the eight men and two women are accused of spreading “numerous malicious comments” online about the first lady’s gender and “sexuality” and of mentioning her age gap with her husband as “paedophilia”.</p>
<p>Aged between 41 and 60, some of the defendants are very active on the social media, with posts sometimes cumulating dozens of thousands of views.</p>
<p>Delphine Jegousse, 51, known as Amandine Roy, who describes herself as a medium and an author, is considered as having played a major role in spreading the rumour after she released a four-hour video on her YouTube channel in 2021.</p>
<p>Aurelien Poirson-Atlan, 41, known as Zoe Sagan on social media, has seen his X account suspended last year after his name was cited in several judicial investigations.</p>
<p>Others include an elected official, a teacher and a computer scientist.</p>
<p>The chief judge said they are all accused of cyberbullying the first lady, which led to “a deterioration of her physical and mental health.”</p>
<p>The Macrons have for years been dogged by conspiracy theories that Mrs Macron was born a man named Jean-Michel Trogneux, who supposedly then took the name Brigitte as a transgender woman.</p>
<p>Jean-Michel Trogneux is the name of Mrs Macron’s brother.</p>
<p>The two-day trial in Paris comes after the Macrons filed a defamation suit in July in a Delaware court as their lawyer said they will be seeking “substantial” damages from US conservative influencer Candace Owens if she persists with claims that Mrs Macron is a man.</p>
<p>Ms Owens is a right-leaning political commentator whose YouTube channel has about 4.5 million subscribers.</p>
<p>In 2024, she was denied a visa from New Zealand and Australia, citing remarks in which she denied Nazi medical experimentation on Jews in concentration camps during the Second World War.</p>
<p>A verdict in the Paris case will likely be issued at a later date.</p>
<p>In September 2024, Mrs Macron and Mr Trogneux won a defamation suit against two women who were sentenced by a Paris court to fines and damages for spreading the claims about the first lady online.</p>
<p>A Paris appeals court overturned the ruling in July.</p>
<p>Mrs Macron and her brother have since turned to France’s highest court to appeal that decision.</p>
<p>The Macrons, who have been married since 2007, first met at the high school where he was a student and she was a teacher.</p>
<p>Mrs Macron, 24 years her husband’s senior, was then called Brigitte Auziere, a married mother-of-three.</p>
<p>Mr Macron, 47, has been France’s president since 2017.</p>
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