“You're happy to be in France. If it wasn't France, you'd be ten thousand times more in the shit! Greeted with boos last night in Pamandzi, a town in Mayottethe French island in the Indian Ocean devastated by cyclone Chido, Emmanuel Macron at some point, he got annoyed and lost his temper. Some people, who no longer even have the slum they lived in, asked him when they could call their loved ones to reassure them, and criticized the Paris government's management of the crisis because they have been waiting for help, water and food for six days.
“It's lucky that you are in France,” Macron essentially replied to those who, even before the cyclone, lived in unworthy conditions. Other times the French president has lashed out at those who asked him for help, or just empathy. He often remembers when, in 2018, he told a young unemployed man that all he had to do was “cross the street” to find work. There are those who call it the arrogance of the French elite, which also makes one think of the “toothless” (to say “poor”) of François Hollande. This was revealed by the betrayed partner of the former socialist president, who has never denied it. Some revelations from The Worldpublished in a long online investigation last night on Macron's “double” personality, in the midst of a political crisis, go further.
The newspaper, citing its sources, attributes racist, homophobic and sexist phrases to Macron. The Elysée he has already denied everything, but in France the controversy is growing. In the 2023, speaking with the former Minister of Health, Aurélien Rousseau, Macron would have said that if public hospitals don't work in France it's because they are “full of Mamadou”, so to speak, people of color. In 2019in an interview with Current Valuesa far-right weekly, would have used the derogatory term “rabzouz”, to indicate French people of Maghrebi origins. It doesn't end here. Again according to sources The WorldMacron and his advisors would nickname the palace of Matignon, seat of the prime minister's offices, the “Cage aux folles”, original French title of the film “Il Vizietto” (1978) by Édouard Molinaroduring the months in which (from January to September 2024) he was prime minister Gabriel Attal, openly gay, who had appointed his former partner to the Foreign Ministry, among other things, Stéphane Séjourné. While the two left-wing exponents, Lucie Castetswho the New Popular Front had nominated for the post of prime minister, and the green Marine Tondelier they would be “cocottes”. “It is surprising that comments by political opponents are reported as facts,” reacted a source from the head of state's entourage contacted by Le Figaro.
The Elysée, denying this, speaks of statements reported by others “without any verification”. Reactions have been pouring in on the left since this morning. Manuel Bompardcoordinator of La France Insoumise (LFI), the radical party calling for the president's resignation, spoke of “absolute shame”. “Such racist comments – he said in turn Mathilde Panot, also from LFI – are unworthy of a President of the Republic”. “Yesterday we became aware of shocking homophobic comments about Gabriel Attal. Today we hear about sexist comments. We look forward to tomorrow,” he wrote in X Marine Tondelier. The World confirm everything.
