A man slapped Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, disrupting a march while the French president was on a state visit before the regional elections this month.
Two 28-year-old men are questioned by a gendarmerie after being beaten – following the royal slogan “Montjoie Saint-Denis!” and “Down with Macronism!” – was provided by man among a group of spectators in the southern town of Tain-l’Hermitage.
The Macron Elysée Palace said a man had “tried to beat” the president, and negotiations and a handshake with the crowd resumed as soon as possible and the march continued.
Opposition parties have strongly criticized Macron “Tour de France” ahead of the June 20 and 27 general elections, saying he was using his position as president to promote his party La République en Marche unconstitutional.
His supporters have said they only want to “get the attention” of the French people to do what they can to achieve in the last year of his presidency, which was first ruined by anti-government protesters. yellow dress demonstrations from 2018 followed by the Covid-19 plague.
But Marine Le Pen, Rassemblement National’s top right-wing leader and politician who is expected to be a key figure in next year’s presidential election, asked: “Is there anyone in France who doesn’t understand that Emmanuel Macron is taking advantage of his position as a celebratory president? regional elections?
On Tuesday, however, politicians across the region met to condemn Macron’s violence.
Le Pen said the practice was “unacceptable and should be strongly opposed to democracy”, while Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a left-wing member of La France Insoumise (France Unbowed), who is often a strong opponent of Macron, said he was in agreement with the president.
Prior to this, Macron was calling for political stability. He does so by predicting Mélenchon’s prediction that there will be “killings or terrorist attacks” in the last week of presidential elections next year to overthrow Muslim protests, as well as a video by the Mélenchon aide.
“Opposition parties can speak freely in democracy,” Macron said on Tuesday, “but the other side is the elimination of violence and hatred… The French want something else, they are tired of this problem and bad news.”
Although Macron is sometimes accused by his critics of being arrogant and out of touch, he enjoys walking and arguing or talking to passersby as he walks around the country. It is well-known among those who told him that he told a gardener who was going to the Elysée on a traditional open day who complained about unemployment to get him a job at a restaurant or hotel. across the street.
Macron is not the first President of France to have been victimized in public. Nicolas Sarkozy was sometimes persecuted and sometimes humiliated. And on this national day in July 2002, a major freedom fighter tried to shoot Jacques Chirac with a .22 rifle, but he missed and was later arrested.
