Politicians raised questions about security arrangements surrounding French President Emmanuel Macron the day after protesters, while he was hiking in a park on National Day, were asked to resign.
Yesterday, a number of protesters of the "yellow vests" saw President Macron, followed him, and made foul words, while he was walking with his wife, Brigitte, accompanied by his bodyguards in the Tuilerie Garden near the Louvre Museum.
A video posted by the protest movement's Facebook page showed what appeared to be a few dozen protesters shouting slogans and shouting, "Go sly, shout" as they surrounded the president and his companions, and many of them recorded the facts on their phones.
Macron addresses one of them, "Today is an official holiday and I am taking a walk with my wife, and you are boycotting me." This confrontation ends when one of the protesters thanks Macron for listening and says to him, "I cannot curse him," when the president was about to leave, and Macron answered. As well".
The leader of the opposition right-wing Republican Party, Christian Jacob, told French television that the incident "poses a real security problem", adding, "How can the President of the Republic take such a risk ?!"
For his part, leftist leader Jean-Luc Melanchon stated that Macron should be more "cautious", because "as a president walking in the Tuileries Garden - where there are a large number of people - he should expect to meet people whom he does not appreciate."
Macron presided over celebrations to commemorate the storming of the Bastille prison, which marked the beginning of the French Revolution on July 14, 1789.
It is noteworthy that the demonstrations largely faded by the summer of 2019, despite the persistence of some protests that attracted far fewer people, intermittently, almost every week.