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CBC
26-05-2025
- Politics
- CBC
French President Emmanuel Macron downplays shove in the face from his wife
Macron pushed in the face as he prepares to deplane 1 hour ago Duration 0:48 Social Sharing Brigitte Macron, the wife of France's president, appeared to push her husband away with both hands on his face just before they disembarked from their plane to start a tour of Southeast Asia this weekend. President Emmanuel Macron dismissed the gesture — caught on camera — as just horseplay, but it caused a stir back home. French media on Monday tried to decipher the interaction that cameras spotted through the just-opened door of the plane. The headline of a story on the website of the daily Le Parisien newspaper asked: "Slap or 'squabble'? The images of Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron disembarking in Vietnam trigger a lot of comment." Macron later told reporters that the couple were simply joking around. "We are squabbling and, rather, joking with my wife," he said, adding that the incident was being overblown into "a sort of geo-planetary catastrophe." His office earlier offered a similar explanation. "It was a moment where the president and his wife were decompressing one last time before the start of the trip by horsing around. It's a moment of complicity. It was all that was needed to give ammunition to the conspiracy theorists," his office said. Contact, then a wave In video taken by The Associated Press as the Macrons arrived in Hanoi on Sunday, a uniformed man can be seen pulling open the plane door and revealing the president standing inside, dressed in a suit and talking to someone who wasn't visible. Two arms in red sleeves reach out and push Macron away, with one hand covering his mouth and part of his nose while the other was on his jawbone. The French leader recoiled, turning his head away. Then, apparently realizing that he was on camera, he broke into a smile and gave a little wave. In subsequent images, Macron and his wife, wearing a red jacket, appeared at the top of the stairs. He offered an arm but she didn't take it. They walked down the carpeted stairs side by side. The couple, who have a 25½-year age gap, married in 2007. They first met when he was a student and she was a teacher at his high school, married with three children, including one of his classmates. Macron was once slapped in the face by a protester in 2021. The man ultimately received a sentence of 18 months in prison, with 14 months suspended. Macron is making the first visit to Vietnam for a French president in a decade. On Monday, the countries signed deals on Airbus planes as well as defence and other spending worth billions in total as France seeks to boost its influence in its former colony amid risks of high U.S. tariffs.
Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Macron cites horseplay as wife appears to push the French leader
French first lady Brigitte Macron appeared to push her husband away with both hands on his face just before they disembarked a plane to start a tour of south-east Asia this weekend. President Emmanuel Macron dismissed the gesture – caught on camera – as just horseplay, but it has caused a stir back in France. French media tried to decipher the interaction that cameras spotted through the just-opened door of the plane. The headline of a story on the website of the daily Le Parisien newspaper asked: 'Slap or 'squabble'? The images of Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron disembarking in Vietnam trigger a lot of comment.' Mr Macron later told reporters that the couple – married since 2007 after meeting at the high school where he was a student and she was a teacher – were simply joking around. 'We are horsing around and, really, joking with my wife,' he said, adding that the incident was being overblown: 'It becomes a sort of geo-planetary catastrophe.' His office earlier offered a similar explanation. 'It was a moment where the President and his wife were decompressing one last time before the start of the trip by horsing around. It's a moment of complicity. It was all that was needed to give ammunition to the conspiracy theorists,' his office said. The video – taken as the Macrons arrived in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Sunday – showed a uniformed man pulling open the plane door and revealing the President standing inside, dressed in a suit and talking to someone who was not visible. Two arms – in red sleeves – reached out and pushed Mr Macron away, with one hand covering his mouth and part of his nose while the other was on his jawbone. The French leader recoiled, turning his head away. Then, apparently realising that he was on camera, he broke into a smile and gave a little wave. In subsequent images, Mr Macron and his wife, wearing a red jacket, appeared at the top of the stairs. He offered an arm but she did not take it. They walked down the carpeted stairs side by side. Brigitte Macron was Brigitte Auziere, a married mother of three children, when they met at Mr Macron's high school. A teacher, she supervised the drama club where Emmanuel Macron, a literature lover, was a member. He moved to Paris for his last year of high school, but promised to marry Brigitte. She later moved to the French capital to join him and divorced before they finally married.
The Sun
26-05-2025
- Politics
- The Sun
Bizarre moment Emmanuel Macron is SLAPPED by his wife Brigitte while ‘bickering' as they got off plane in Vietnam
THIS is the jaw-dropping moment French President Emmanuel Macron is slapped by his wife Brigitte as the pair "bickered". Unbelievable footage shows the presidential plane door open to Brigitte's hands on Macron's face as they arrived in Vietnam for the start of a tour of Southeast Asia. 3 3 3 Footage captured on Sunday evening at Hanoi airport show the plane's doors opened to reveal Macron stood inside the aircraft, facing his wife with a stern look. Within seconds, Brigitte's arms pop into view, with both of them raised to Macron's face in what appears to be a small blow. Appearing shocked, the French leader immediately notices the doors open and quickly turns to wave at the sea of cameras at the bottom of the plane steps. The couple then emerge from the aircraft and walk down the staircase, with Macron extending his arm to his wife. But she takes hold of the handrail of the walkway for support instead, potentially due to an explosive argument they had inside. The clip of the fighting couple went viral overnight, with it initially denied by Palais de l'Élysée as being fake. But sources in the French media later confirmed that the clip is in fact real. According to an anonymous source close to the President, the couple were "bickering". They told BFMTV: "It was a moment when the president and his wife were unwinding one last time before the start of the trip by having a little fun." The same source added that "it was a moment of complicity" that "wasn't enough to give the conspiracy theorists more to chew" - alluding to the negative media spread by Russia. Macron was in Hanoi to begin a week-long tour of Southeast Asia, where he will also visit Indonesia and Singapore.
