Two ladies who had been beforehand convicted of defaming French First Woman Brigitte Macron by claiming she was “born a person” have been discovered not responsible on enchantment. Amandine Roy, 53, and Natacha Rey, 49, a blogger, had been cleared of the fees because the judges of the Paris Enchantment Courtroom on Thursday dominated that that they had each proper to make these allegations, as reported by the Day by day Mail. They had been subjected to “intimidation by the authorities” as “extremely protected” members of the authority tried to cowl up a “state secret.”Roy and Rey had appeared on a 4-hour-long YouTube video in December 2021, the place they claimed that Brigitte was born a boy with the title Jean-Michel Trogneux. Brigitte Macron, 72, whose maiden title is Trogneux, has a brother referred to as Jean-Michel. The defendants additionally asserted that Brigitte’s first husband, André-Louis Auzière, didn’t really exist earlier than his reported dying in 2020 at age 68.Macron had sued each ladies in January 2022 for defamation. In September final yr, a decrease courtroom ordered the 2 ladies to pay €8,000 in damages to Brigitte Macron and an extra €5,000 (round $5,500) to her brother, as reported by France 24.Right now’s courtroom ruling declared that the 18 passages from the video in query “don’t represent defamation” however reasonably fall beneath “good religion” free speech.The defendants now not must pay something and might as a substitute reiterate their allegations in opposition to Macron. Macron’s legal professionals knowledgeable that she was “devastated” by the ruling and can now transfer to France’s Cassation Courtroom. This comes amid Brigitte Macron finds herself beneath assault not simply in France however internationally. A controversial e-book named “Changing into Brigitte,” printed by journalist Xavier Poussard, is changing into the breeding floor for conspiracy theories. American commentator Candace Owens additionally posted on X, “It was by no means defamation. It was a witch hunt. Legally talking, the one proof Brigitte Macron is a lady is her phrase that she is. There’s tons of proof nonetheless, that she lived as a person earlier than “changing into Brigitte”.”The ruling got here as 4 male defendants face a cyber-harassment trial on the Paris Correctional Courtroom, accused of evaluating Bridgitte Macron to a toddler abuser.
