"The State, and the French taxpayer, is not intended to pay for free masks for everyone all the time. So I think that it must remain a social policy", declared Emmanuel Macron, Tuesday on TF1. 

 Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that the French taxpayer was "not intended to pay for masks" for everyone, but those who cannot buy them will be "helped", while the wearing of a mask has become compulsory in places closed audiences. "The State, and the French taxpayer, is not intended to pay for free masks for everyone all the time. So I think that it must remain a social policy", declared on TF1 the President of the Republic. Those who cannot afford to buy it will be "helped", he said, while voices have been raised in recent days to ask for free.