“It’s full of Mamadou” “La cage aux Folles”, “Les cocottes”: the left is up in arms against racist, sexist and homophobic remarks attributed to Emmanuel Macron

Nauseous comments. Several left-wing elected officials singled out, Thursday, December 19, racist, sexist and homophobic statements, attributed in the daily newspaper The World to Emmanuel Macron. In this investigation published Thursday, December 19, citing reported remarks, the head of state would have said, in 2023 before his then Minister of Health Aurélien Rousseau, that “the problem with emergencies in this country is that it’s full of Mamadous”. Other detestable statements are also revealed by the daily. The Elysée “strongly denies these reported comments” .

The communist senator from Paris Ian Brossat was indignant on the social network “racist. Undoubtedly. They are overwhelming”. “These racist remarks by the President of the Republic, reported by the newspaper Le Monde, are an insult to the Republic. It’s an absolute disgrace. I can’t wait for him to go away,” the coordinator of La France insoumise Manuel Bompard also wrote on X.

“Everything goes: racism, homophobia, sexism”

The daily also reveals that, at the end of August, the president delivered his diagnosis during a meeting, indicating: “The French don’t want the left. » For him, they would like less ecology and fewer immigrants, the journalists explain.

Moreover, The World revealed, Wednesday, that the Élysée had baptized Matignon “The Mad Cage” when the prime minister was Gabriel Attal. And on Thursday, the investigation revealed that the president had qualified Marine Tondelier, head of the Ecologists, and Lucie Castets, proposed by the New Popular Front for Matignon, as “casseroles” in small committee.

For her part, Marine Tondelier published on X: “Yesterday we learned of extremely shocking homophobic comments from the President of the Republic about Gabriel Attal. Today these are sexist comments (…) We look forward to tomorrow…”.