two ladies, convicted of defamation, have been launched on enchantment | EUROtoday

The false new transphobe has turn out to be viral to the United States. The Paris Court of Appeal launched, Thursday, July 10, two ladies who had unfold the rumor on the Internet that Brigitte Macron is a transgender lady. The two defendants, Natacha Rey and Amandine Roy, have been launched regarding 18 articles implicated by Brigitte Macron and her brother.

At first occasion, final September, the 2 ladies have been discovered responsible of defamation and sentenced to a nice of 500 euros suspended, in addition to paying a complete of 8,000 euros in damages to Brigitte Macron, and 5,000 euros to his brother Jean-Michel Togneux, each civil events on the trial.

According to the Court of Appeal, solely a passage referring to a misappropriation of a minor entered the sphere of utility of the press regulation however it additionally pronounced a leisure, this time for the advantage of good religion. “I will see with my clients what we are going to do, but of course, we do not agree” With this judgment, stated Jean Ennochi, the lawyer for the primary woman.

A persistent rumor

“Natacha Rey, chased, persecuted, condemned. But finally Natacha Rey relaxed “,, for his part, congratulated the lawyer for the latter, François Danglehant, at the exit of the courtroom, in front of around thirty supporters of the young woman. 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, would never have existed, but that her brother Jean-Michel would have taken this identity after having transitioned.

The two women had largely contributed to making it known in 2021, through 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 “DERMIER”,, ” rip-off “of this “State lie”.

In the interview broadcast on YouTube, they 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-notably and still recently in the United States, where it has become viral on the far right, in the middle of the presidential campaign.

Several politicians around the world have already paid info with transphobic info, such as the ex-first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, the former American vice-president, Kamala Harris, or the former New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern.