French President Emmanuel Macron has called for the immediate release of former Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi after learning of her worsening health problems in military custody. Mr Macron wrote to the 80-year-old to say he was “very concerned” to hear from her son about the deterioration of her health and difficulty in accessing appropriate care “in the context of an unfair detention”.

Emmanuel Macron’s popularity has dropped to the lowest level of any French president in the Fifth Republic, according to a poll released on Thursday.

In September 2024, Brigitte and Jean-Michel Trogneux won a defamation suit against two women who were sentenced by a Paris court to fines and damages for spreading the claims about the first lady online. A Paris appeals court overturned the ruling in July. Brigitte and her brother have since turned to France’s highest court to appeal that decision.

Ten people went on trial in Paris on Monday for allegedly harassing President Emmanuel Macron’s wife, Brigitte Macron, by spewing malicious rumors that she is really a man. The eight men and two women have been accused of sexist cyber-harassment after they allegedly played a major role in fueling claims online about the French first lady’s gender and sexuality,

The claim was posted by an account called The General (@GeneralMCNews) who said: “BREAKING: French President Emmanuel Macron’s wife, Brigitte Macron discovered that her tax account on France’s official government website listed her as a male under the name “Jean-Michel.” This post went viral with more than 8 million views as of Monday.

French President Emmanuel Macron called for a ban on social media that fail to disclose their political bias and said platforms are undermining democracy across the world.

BRIGITTE Macron reads every word of trolls’ online abuse claiming she was born male, her daughter told a French court today. Tiphaine Auzière took to the stand as ten people went on trial

Brigitte Macron's daughter has testified in a Paris court about the impact of alleged cyberbullying on her mother, who is France's first lady.

Brigitte Macron's alleged cyberbullies faced their first day of trial on Oct. 28, as the French first lady attempts to shut down the relentless harassment online about her appearance and gender

The baseless conspiracy theories about Brigitte Macron's gender have taken a negative toll on the French first lady.