France’s First Lady, Brigitte Macron, is taking her libel case against two women to the country’s highest appeals court after a lower court had initially let them off, her lawyer announced on Monday.
The case stems from a YouTube video posted in December 2021, in which the two women falsely alleged that Brigitte Macron had once been a man named Jean-Michel Trogneux — who is, in reality, her brother. Brigitte Macron filed a libel complaint following the video’s circulation.
In September last year, a lower court ordered the women to pay €8,000 ($9,400) in damages to Brigitte Macron and €5,000 to her brother, but subsequent legal challenges have now brought the case before France’s highest appeals court as the First Lady seeks final redress.
