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Macron slapped in face during crowd stop
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PARIS, 09 June 2021, (TON): French President Emmanuel Macron was slapped in the face while greeting a crowd in southeast France, a security scare that drew widespread condemnation ahead of regional elections this month.
Video footage on social media showed Macron approach a barrier to meet and shake hands with voters, where a man in a green T-shirt took hold of his elbow and said a few words before slapping him.
Local officials said that Macron’s bodyguards quickly intervened and two people were detained afterwards.
The prefecture for the Drome region said, “At around 1:15pm the president got into his car after visiting a high school, but got back out because onlookers were calling to him.”
It said, “He went to meet them and that’s when the incident took place.”
The local prosecutor’s office said “two 28yearold men living in the region are being questioned, but at this stage of questioning, their motives remain unknown.”
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