Emmanuel Macron at a press conference in Beirut on September 1.

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Lemouton / Pool / SIPA

“The incident is closed”.

On Wednesday, LCI unveiled a surprising video in which we discovered Emmanuel Macron during a reception in Beirut in Lebanon on Tuesday evening, publicly attacking a journalist from 

Figaro

.

"What you did there, taking into account the sensitivity of the subject, taking into account what you know of the history of this country, is irresponsible", he launched to Georges Malbrunot, senior reporter, specialist in the Middle East .

A sequence on which the journalist spoke to AFP.

“I am very surprised at the virulence of this attack, which is unacceptable and to which I responded.

I explained myself to the Elysee Palace, for me the incident is closed, ”he said.

"I'm doing my job as a journalist"

The reasons for the president's anger differ according to the media.

For LCI, it would have been aroused by "several elements that appeared in 

Le Figaro

 on August 31 and September 1".

According to AFP, the origin of the discord comes rather from an article of August 30.

In both cases, the subject concerns the first visit of Emmanuel Macron to Lebanon in early August, after the explosion at the port of Beirut.

“Basically, I told the president that my sources were reliable.

He reproached me for having hampered his action, I am doing my job as a journalist, ”assured Georges Malbrunot to the

Parisian

.

“The problem is not that he wrote it and that he has sources, but that he does not leave us the possibility of denying such important things, replied the Elysee on a daily basis.

This is why the president spoke of ethics.

We spoke with Georges Malbrunot.

The incident is closed.

The president is not an anti-journalist, quite the contrary.

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