The Paris Court of Appeal today acquitted two women who spread the rumor to the internet that Brigitte Macron, the wife of the French president, was born a man, a “false news” that went viral around the world, especially in the US.
Natasha Rey and Amadin Roua, who had been found at first instance, were free today for the 18 articles for which the first lady of France and her brother had appealed against them. Only one paragraph referring to a “kidnapping” violates the press law, but the court also acquitted them for it, considering that they were in good faith.
“We’ll see with my clients what we will do but obviously we do not agree” The decision, commented by Jean -hero, the lawyer who represented Brigitte Macron.
“Natasha Rei was persecuted, convicted, but eventually relieved,” said defendant lawyer Francois Danglian, addressing about 30 supporters of the young woman.
In the first trial, in September, the two women were sentenced to 500 euros with suspension and payment of € 8,000 to Brigitte Macron and 5,000 euros to her brother, Jean-Misel Tronier. At the heart of the case was a constructed “news” that has been circulating on social networking sites since 2017, the year elected President of France by Emmanuel Macron. According to this rumor, Brigitte Macron, whose surname is a truncheon, “never existed” but her brother, Jean-Misel Tronie, changed a leaf and adopted that name.
The two women spread the reputation in 2021, through an “interview” in which Amadin Rua, who declares a “medium”, asked on her YouTube channel the second, the “self -taught independent journalist” Natasha Rei, about how she discovered this “fraud”. They showed photos of Brigitte Macron and her family, referring to the surgery that Jean-Misel Tronier was allegedly underwent, argued that she was not the mother of her three children and provided personal information about her brother.
Many female politicians around the world have been victims of false transphobic information: former US First Lady Michelle Obama, former US Vice President Kamala Harris, and even former New Zealand Prime Minister Zassinda Ardern.
Source :Skai
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