Owens Accuses Macrons of Authorizing Assassination Plot

Conservative commentator Candace Owens has accused French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, of authorizing an assassination plot against her, escalating a defamation lawsuit the couple filed against her in the United States.

In social media posts on November 22 and 23, 2025, Owens claimed that a high-ranking French government employee warned her of the scheme. She alleged that the Macrons had approved and funded the operation, with the order given to a small unit within France's elite National Gendarmerie Intervention Group, known as GIGN. Owens further asserted that the team included a French female operative and a male Israeli agent, describing it as a joint state operation. She provided no documentation or evidence to support these assertions.

The following day, Owens intensified her claims by stating that payments for assassinations, including hers, were being routed through the Club des Cent in France, urging French citizens to investigate what she called a paper trail. The group she referenced appears to allude to an exclusive Parisian dining society founded in 1912, though she offered no clarification or proof. Owens also linked the alleged plot to...