A video of Emmanuel Macron in Mayotte broadcast by Brut went viral late this Thursday, December 19. “If it wasn’t France, you would be 10,000 times more in trouble!”, he says to the victims who have lacked everything since the passage of Cyclone Chido.
An anger of the Mahorais followed by that of the President of the Republic. A sequence of Emmanuel Macron went viral late this Thursday, December 19 on social networks. Filmed and broadcast by the media Brut, we see the tenant of the Élysée getting carried away on the microphone in front of victims, almost a week after the passage of Cyclone Chido in Mayotte.
Emmanuel Macron is challenged by the angry population: five days after destructive winds, the situation in Mamoudzou and throughout the territory is catastrophic. Everything is missing, houses are destroyed, the telephone network does not work.
“Today, you come to tell us that everything is going well when everything is going wrong,” says a resident to Emmanuel Macron. “We are going to count the deaths in the slums, Mr. President (…) I do not agree that everything is going well.”
“I spent the day with you, I am shouting to talk,” Emmanuel Macron replies, assuring that he never said that “everything is fine”.
“Yes, it annoys me! Because it’s disrespectful!”
“Why are you making me say that? Everyone is fighting, you’ve experienced something terrible. Don’t pit people against each other! If you pit people against each other, we’re screwed! Because you’re happy to be in France! “, then continues Emmanuel Macron.
“If it wasn’t France, you would be 10,000 times more in trouble!” continues the President of the Republic. “There is no place in the Indian Ocean where we help people so much.”
“We cannot want to be a French department and say that it doesn’t work when France is in solidarity. Everyone must respect each other! We will last until the end if we are a team!” then shouts Emmanuel Macron.
While his microphone no longer seems to work, the head of state continues and addresses Mahorais who question him: “Yes, that annoys me! Because it’s disrespectful!” he says.
This tense exchange, like others, took place at the end of the day this Thursday. Emmanuel Macron arrived on the island mid-morning to see the damage caused by Cyclone Chido. He promised to “rebuild” the department thanks to a “special law”, but also to “strengthen the fight against illegal immigration”.
