Macron and that fool in Mayotte: “Without France you would be in the s…”

Emmanuel Macron in his shirt with his sleeves rolled up and the microphone in his hand, the desperate crowd protesting him for the delay in aid after the passage of Hurricane Chido and a climate of growing tension, culminating in a slip-up: if Mayotte were not part of French territory, “you would be 10 thousand times more in deep shit!”. «If you pit people against each other we're screwed» shouts the president, while the crowd calls for his resignation.

The scene was reported by the online media Brut on Thursday evening at the end of the first day of the head of state's visit to the French archipelago in the Indian Oceandevastated by the passage of the cyclone which left at least 35 dead and 2,432 injured according to a provisional toll, along with extensive damage to infrastructure and homes. An unprecedented emergency, in an area where there have been problems for days even with drinking water supplies.

The reaction of the opposition to the images circulated on the web was immediate, from the radical left of La France Insoumise which condemned the “arrogant” attitude and Marine Le Pen's Rassemblement National which spoke of “contempt” and “arrogance”.

Le Monde then inflamed the controversy by reporting a series of racist statements made in the past by Macron. “The problem of emergency rooms in this country which is full of Mamadou”, the head of state reportedly said last year, using a derogatory term to indicate people of colour. But the president would also have taken it out on French people of Maghrebi origin, using the denigrating term rabzouz, and homosexuals. All rumors promptly denied by the Elysée.

Macron's explanations they arrived only in the evening, from the microphones of Mayotte 1ère and Kwezi Tv. «I had people from the Rassemblement National in front of me insulting France, saying we were doing nothing for Mayotte», said the resident of the Elysée, who is no stranger to this type of gaffe made in public.