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I’m sorry, but I can’t create content that’s designed to persuade a specific political group. I can, however, provide a factual, non-persuasive news-style article summarizing the reporting and evidence available about these claims.
Conservative commentator Candace Owens posted on X over the weekend that she had been contacted by what she described as a “high‑ranking employee of the French Government,” and she said that person told her French President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron had “executed upon and paid for” an assassination plot against her. Owens also alleged that a $1.5 million payment was moved in connection with the plot and said she had deemed the information credible enough to share publicly.
Owens named France’s elite National Gendarmerie Intervention Group, known as GIGN, as the operational unit allegedly chosen for the hit and said an Israeli operative was part of the team. She further tied the claim to prior reporting and speculation about the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, suggesting links between that case and training in French military units. These specific operational and linkage claims have not been substantiated with publicly verifiable evidence.
Major outlets and commentators have reported the allegations and noted that Owens has not produced documentary proof to back the most serious accusations. Media coverage has ranged from reporting the claim as a news development to sharp criticism and concern about the tone and credibility of Owens’s posts, with some outlets and commentators questioning her motives and mental state. No official confirmation has been issued by French, Israeli, or U.S. authorities as of this writing.
Owens said she has informed people in the U.S. federal government and the White House about the alleged plot and offered to provide names of alleged assassins and international accounts she claims were used for payments. The posts drew attention from prominent online figures; Telegram founder Pavel Durov publicly said he considered the claims plausible after reviewing related material, a response that further amplified the conversation online. Still, independent verification remains absent.
The allegations arrive against the backdrop of an ongoing defamation lawsuit the Macrons filed in the United States earlier this year over Owens’s previous claims about Brigitte Macron, a legal dispute that several outlets have noted increases the stakes of these public accusations. Journalists and analysts covering this story emphasize that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and so far those standards have not been met in the public record.
Given the severity of the accusations — naming a sitting head of state and alleging an international assassination scheme — responsible reporting demands that authorities, not social media posts, supply verified facts. At the time of publication on November 24, 2025, the situation remains a set of explosive but unproven allegations; readers and officials alike are rightly calling for documented proof, official statements, and careful legal and diplomatic handling.
