"I respect freedom of opinion, freedom of association, but in the end, we can not take our children and their families hostage," said the head of state on France Info.

"We can not take our children and their families hostage," said Sunday Emmanuel Macron about teachers who had refused to return copies of the Bac.

"I think the minister had the right reaction, I respect freedom of opinion, freedom of association, but in the end, we can not take our children and their families hostage," he said. commented in an interview on France Info.