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Originally Posted by Captain.Remy

You know it's bad when even Marine Le Pen, that evil far right leader, disagrees with what just happened. All politics and French people are very shocked at this.

One may dislike him or not agree with his policies but democracy cannot tolerate this violence. People can freely give their opinions in the streets, in the media, on social media and also whenever there is a vote.

I mean France is known for its protests and strikes but this is on another level of heinous behavior. Slapping him for what? It's dumb and pointless.
I know in the UK you don't have the same "relationship" with your Prime Ministers but in France we have a strong tradition for Presidents and a specific level of respect for them (well, we beheaded a King but you get the point). From what I can read right now in different places (Twitter being one of them, I know I shouldn't read it...), our French leaders say "You can't attack physically a politician, epsecially the President". It goes beyong everything democracy stands for.

…I was waiting to hear your take on this because it is pretty terrifying as well and just such an intolerable thing to happen….it’s how vulnerable Macron was that this could have happened to him and obviously could have been something quite horrendous in terms of injury if there was other intent there….