A dramatic video showing French President Emmanuel Macron, who was pushed by the first Lady of Brigitte Macron with both hands on his face just before they got off their plane to start a tour of Southeast Asia, caused quite a stir. President Emmanuel Macron rejected this gesture and said they were just “horses”.
The video shows that Emmanuel Macron stands at the plane door just before the presidential plane, when Brigitte, invisible to the camera, puts both hands on his mouth and pushes him away.
Emmanuel Macron, who realized that the aircraft door was open, smiles, waves a quick “hello” to reporters standing outside and turns his head away.
Both later looked smiling and waved. Emmanuel Macron also offered his arm, but she didn’t take it. They walked up the stairs next to each other.
Emmanuel Macron later told reporters that the couple – married since 2007 after a high school meeting where he was a student and she was a teacher – just joking.
“We are on a bike and we are really joking with our wife,” he said, adding that the incident was exaggerated: “It becomes a kind of geo-planetary disaster.”
His office had previously offered a similar explanation and said the two of them last decompressed before the trip.
“It was the moment when the President and his wife decompressed the last before the start of the horse. It is a moment of participation. It was all that had to be given to murmurs with conspiracy theorists,” his office said.
(Tagstotranslate) Emmanuel Macron
