Macron has been criticized for comments described as racist, homophobic and misogynistic. The Élysée denies the information.
Emmanuel Macron was strongly criticized by left-wing elected officials for remarks described as “racist” that the French president allegedly made on the hospital situation, reported by the daily Le Monde, but denied this Friday, December 20 by the French presidency .
In a newspaper investigation, 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 Mamadou“. “The Élysée firmly denies these reported comments, which were not subject to any verification with the presidency before publication.“, Emmanuel Macron's entourage reacted on Friday.
Before this denial, reactions had multiplied on Thursday. “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 (radical left), Manuel Bompard, had written onare racist. Undoubtedly. They are overwhelming“, added Paris communist senator Ian Brossat on the same social network.
“Everything goes: racism, homophobia, sexism. All locked in a gilded palace, far from the gaze of the French, to whom he lectures all day long“, had castigated for his part the deputy of the Somme François Ruffin, also citing other sentences attributed to the tenant of the Élysée by this long-term investigation by Le Monde.
The daily assured in particular on Wednesday that homosexuals were described as “little fags” or from “large tarlouzes“by the president and his advisors. Still according to Le Monde, Emmanuel Macron would have described Marine Tondelier, head of the Ecologists, and Lucie Castets, proposed by the New Popular Front (left) for Matignon, as “casseroles“.
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