French President Emmanuel Macron was slapped by a man in a crowd as he addressed the public during a visit to southeast France on Tuesday June 8.
The video shared via social media, showed Macron approaching a metal fence and fastening the arm of a man in the crowd as he welcomed spectators in the town of Tain-l’Hermitage, in the Drôme district of France.
The man, while holding Macron’s arm, then, at that point slapped the President across his left cheek while hollering for the end of “Macronie” – an insulting term user in the French press for Macron’s administration.
Macron’s security detail immediately interceded, handling the man while pulling the president away from the metal boundary.
Minutes prior to slapping Macron, the culprit also yelled, “Montjoie! Saint Denis!,” a middle age call to war utilized by the Capetian regal tradition, which governed France from the tenth to the eighteenth century.
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Two men, including the one who slapped Macron and another going with him, have been set in police custody for supposed violence against an individual holding public position.
Macron was in the vicinity to meet eatery owners, ahead of Wednesday’s easing of Covid-19 limitations in France. Macron is at present on an appeal hostile, with France’s presidential elections less than a year away and the country just weeks from regional elections on June 20 and June 27.
