French President Macron Slapped In The Face During Trip To South
French President Emmanuel Macron was slapped in the face by a man on Tuesday during a visit to a small town in southeastern France, France24 reports.
Macron was greeting the public waiting for him behind barriers in the town of Tain-l’Hermitage after he visited a high school that is training students to work in hotels and restaurants.
French news broadcaster BFM TV said two people have been detained by police.
The man, who was wearing a mask, appears to have cried out “Montjoie! Saint Denis!” a centuries-old royalist war cry, before finishing with “A bas la Macronie,” or “Down with Macron.”
The incident prompted a wide show of support for French politicians from all sides, with far-right leader Marine Le Pen describing it on Twitter as “intolerable physical aggression targeting the president of the Republic.”
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Former President Francois Hollande of the Socialist Party tweeted that the assault is an “unbearable and intolerable blow against our institutions … The entire nation must show solidarity with the head of state.”
Watch the incident in the video below:
