French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte filed a lawsuit against the right -wing influencer Candace Owens on Wednesday at the Higher Court of the US State Delaware, who claimed that the French first lady was born as a man. TASR informs about this, referring to AFP and Reuters.
Owens has millions of followers on X and YouTube platforms. In a 218-page action with 22 points The Macron family demands conducting a trial with a jury and unspecified compensation. In a statement published by their lawyer, the Macron stated that they had filed a lawsuit after Owens repeatedly ignored applications for dismissal of false and derogatory claims listed in the eight -part series of podcasts accessible on YouTube called Becoming Brigitte.
“Owens’ defamatory campaign was clearly created to annoy us and our families and cause them pain and get attention,” the lawsuit says. “We have given her all the possibilities to withdraw from these claims, but refused. We sincerely hope that the action would put the things right and will end this defamation campaign once and for all,” They write the Macron family.
Owens also claimed that Brigitte Macron and her husband are blood relatives and that Macron became president as part of the Mind -controlled Control program operated by the CIA secret service. Even in her native France, 72-year-old Macron is fighting the courts against claims that she was born as a man.
In September last year, two women were convicted of spreading false claims After publishing a video on YouTube in December 2021, claiming that Brigitte Macron was once called Jean-Michel Trogneux-which is actually the name of her brother. This verdict was canceled by the Paris Court of Appeal. Macron appealed to him in early July Court de Cassation.
In order for publicly known persons in the action for defamation filed in the US, they must prove that the defendants had to know that their claims were false or recklessly ignored the truth, Reuters recalls.
