Casal Macron sues commentator Candace Owens for claiming that Brigitte is a man

Conservative commentator Candace Owens said Brigitte is a man and was born with the name Jean-Michel Togneux. The presidential couple decided to move forward with a process for defamation.

French President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron advanced with defamation process In the United States against conservative commentator Candace Owens.

The couple accuses Owens to disseminate “extravagant and defamatory” allegations, including Brigitte Macron “It is actually a manWith the name of Birth Jean-Michel Togneux.

The 218-page process was presented this Wednesday in the state of Delaware and represents an unusual case of a head of state in office to process a media figure by content published online. Among other allegations, Owens also states that the French presidential couple is composed of consanguineous relatives and that Emmanuel Macron would be Result of a mental control experience carried out by the CIA or a similar government program.

The defense of the macrons, led by lawyer Thomas Clare, told what “the principle here is the truth.” According to Clare, the couple tried to resolve the issue extrajudicially, but Owens will have ridiculed the requests for retraction. The macrons ask for a jury trial and punitive compensationand are available to witness in person in the US.

The basis of the judicial complaint focuses on the eight-episode series entitled Becoming Brigittepublished by Owens this year on Youtube and associated with various podcasts. The series has already exceeded 2.3 million views. The couple argues that Owens Used false information to gain notorietyincrease your audience and profit from the contents. Attempts to contact to correct the record would have been ignored.

“The grotesque and conspiracy allegations resulted in bullying on the global scale”It reads in the process. The defense adds that the macrons suffered“ serious reputational damage ”and had to invest“ significant sums ”to deny rumors.

The theory about Brigitte Macron originated in France in 2021 and was shared by figures such as Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan. Although initially avoided reacting not to amplify the rumors, Brigitte Macron moved in 2022 a process of defamation in France, which won in the first instance, but was reversed by appeal. Candace Owens has not yet responded to the process.