“It’s all right, we need to put this incident into perspective, which I consider an isolated fact.” French President Emmanuel Macron commented on the episode of violence he suffered yesterday. On a visit to the Drome region in southeastern France, after an event at the Tain-l’Hermitage hotel school, he was slapped by a man when he approached the crowd. The security entourage intervened immediately, blocked the attacker and dismissed the president.
The man who slapped Macro shouted the battle cry of the Capetians (followers of Ugo Capeto, third dynasty of the kings of France): “Montjoie! St Denis», e «Down with Macronie»(Down the Macronism). After the episode, the attacker and a man who was next to him were arrested. According to the French media, these are two “yellow vests”.
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– ⚜️ (@AlexpLille) June 8, 2021
“An isolated fact”
“We do not allow isolated facts, or ultra-violent individuals, as there are always some even in demonstrations, to take over the public debate, they do not deserve it”, added Macron, responding to the local newspaper The Dauphiné Libéré. “It’s idiocy. And when idiocy joins violence, it becomes unacceptable ». Macron says he has “no fear” and instead intends to return to the crowd: “I will continue to go everywhere. I always go into contact with people, at a distance of anger, as I say. And I care. People express their anger to me, sometimes their disappointment, and I’m always there. We must not give up anything in the face of violence ».
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Violence against French politicians, even high-level ones, is nothing new. In the midst of the Dreyfus affair, President Emile Loubet was violently shot in the head by Baron de Christiani at the Auteuil racecourse. More recently, Jacques Chirac was insulted, while former prime minister Manuel Valls, campaigning for the left-wing primary in early 2017, was slapped on a trip to Brittany. The mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, received a stab in 2002 from a deranged man. And Republican candidate and former minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet had been pushed into a market.
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