“If you had Madame Macron in front of you, would you have told her about his cock?”

On the witness stand, Jérôme A. was silent. Perhaps he “wouldn’t have made jokes in front of” Brigitte Macron , the first lady of France, if she had been standing right before him. But “it all depends on the context and the moment,” he stammered.

The 49-year-old IT specialist was among the 10 defendants, aged between 41 and 65, for whom prosecutors requested suspended prison sentences, ranging from 3 to 12 months, after they were charged and tried for cyberstalking the first lady. In the Paris criminal court on Monday and Tuesday, they were accused of having published or relayed on social networks jokes, insults, photomontages, and other caricatures claiming that Brigitte Macron was a man. Ahead of

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