Julien Pichené, with Solène Delinger 11:05 am, September 06, 2023
Monday, September 4, the day of the new school year, Emmanuel Macron gave an exclusive interview to YouTuber Hugo Travers, aka Hugo Décrypte. An interview during which the President of the Republic notably returned to the ban on wearing the abaya at school. On YouTube, the video of this face-to-face is a hit and already has more than a million views...The million for Emmanuel Macron! No, the President of the Republic did not play the millionaire... But the interview he gave Monday, the day of the new school year, to YouTuber Hugo Travers, aka Hugo Décrypte, exceeded Tuesday evening the milestone of one million views.
The quality of maintenance sometimes criticized
The YouTuber questioned the head of state on the hot topic of this new school year: the ban on wearing the abaya in schools. "From kindergarten to the baccalaureate, the school is secular and there is no place for the religious symbol," Macron said.
The quality of this interview dedicated to young people about their future has sometimes been criticized. Télérama, for example, regrets to see that Hugo Décrypte, whose political interviews had already been a hit during the presidential elections of 2017 and 2022, has taken up the codes of a formatted television, and that he has not been able to impose his style.
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But in 36 hours, the video has already totaled more than a million views. Hugo Travers could achieve his best score on YouTube, which so far remains his interview with Eric Zemmour last year, and which had totaled 1.9 million views.