French President Macron slapped during crowd stop

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French president greets man, gets slapped in the face

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Images on social media and broadcast on the BFM news channel showed Macron approach a barrier to greet voters, where a long-haired man in a green t-shirt took hold of his elbow and then slapped him.

"Politics can never be violence, verbal aggression, much less physical aggression," Prime Minister Jean Castex told parliament, adding that "through the president, it is democracy that has been targeted." His planned nationwide tour includes around a dozen separate stops over the next two months, with the former investment banker keen to meet voters in person after more than a year of crisis management over the Covid-19 pandemic.

Macron conducted another tour billed as a listening exercise in the aftermath of protests in 2019, which shook the country and saw him promise to change his way of governing. In a rare moment of national unity, even his fiercest critics and political rivals came to his defence after the event.

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Lousy security.

A slap for few months in jail and tones of money on legal cost. How dumb can he be?

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