Emmanuel Macron will maintain direct contact with the population despite the slap he received in the south of France

French President Emmanuel Macron will maintain direct contact with the population as he travels across the country despite the slap he received on Tuesday., the government spokesman said on Wednesday, Gabriel Attal, who insisted on considering this incident as “An isolated act”.

In an interview at the station Europe 1, Attal repeated that “It would be incomprehensible if the French were deprived of contact with the president” by the action of the 28-year-old man who slapped him, and that he was immediately arrested by Macron’s protection service, just like a friend.

The spokesperson insisted that the head of state “Will contact the French without filters” and “in 99.99% of cases” there are no incidents.

According to him, what happened during a trip by the president to the Drôme department, in the south of the country, “is an isolated act because not to give the impression that what this man did is representative of the French population”.

Attal considered “A good sign” that all politicians immediately condemned the slap and he underlined that “in a democratic country, it is healthy that the debate takes place in a context without violence”.

The Minister of Economy and Finance, Bruno the Mayor, said this Wednesday, in another interview with the channel BFMTV, that the attack against Macron “is a serious gesture against the French nation as a whole“Which has happened at a time when there is” a deterioration of public debate. “

The Mayor criticized policy makers who fall into “Personal attack”, “cynicism” and “conspiracy”.

Attal recalled some controversial statements from the left-wing leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who said on Sunday that predicted that in the last phase of the campaign for the presidential election of 2022 there would be “a serious incident or a murder”, because there had already been attacks in previous elections.

“In history, the most serious violence always begins with words”said the Minister of Economy and Finance.

(With information from EFE)

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