Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron, in front of the town hall of Le Touquet, June 28, 2020. -

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  • Reconfinements located in Nice and Dunkirk against a "crowd bath" in Le Touquet: on Twitter and Facebook, Internet users denounce, with photos in support, a "double standard".

  • In question, the President of the Republic and his wife, who would have been photographed without a mask and in public on the Opal Coast even though the inhabitants of several communities in the North and the Alpes-Maritimes were subjected for the first time to a cover-up. fire for the whole weekend.

  • In reality, if Emmanuel Macron went to Le Touquet this weekend, the associated images are archive photos, much earlier.

“The king and queen wander through the streets of Le Touquet (Pas-de-Calais), without a mask, of course.

"While the toothless of Dunkirk and Nice are confined to their homes […] E.Macron offers a good time and a walkabout in Le Touquet.

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On Twitter, Internet users denounce, photo in support, the getaway of the President of the Republic and his wife in Le Touquet this weekend, in the midst of a resurgence of the coronavirus epidemic.

One of these posts had already been shared nearly 900 times on Monday evening.

Twitter post.

- Twitter capture

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What is it?

Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron had a good last weekend in Le Touquet, where the latter owns a villa.

On the other hand, the photo which accompanies the tweets is older: it dates back to Sunday, June 28, 2020. The couple is photographed at the exit of the town hall of Touquet, after having voted in the second round of municipal elections.

20 Minutes

had used a photo from this series to illustrate one of its articles, a few days later.

The clothes of the president and his wife, as well as the people around them are the same as in the photo used by Internet users.

Why was this cliché highlighted on social networks on Sunday?

The photo served as an illustration for a Gala article relating to the Macron weekend in Le Touquet.

Some Internet users then used it to denounce the couple's non-wearing of the mask.

Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron: weekend of relaxation in Le Touquet for the presidential couple https://t.co/D6T0Fzefic

- Gala (@GALAfr) February 27, 2021

In Touquet or Roubaix?

In addition, another publication, on Facebook this time, placed Emmanuel Macron in Roubaix this weekend, and no longer in Le Touquet.

"While the Dunquerkois and the Alpes-Maritimes are confined, Monsieur is celebrating," he said, presenting a photo showing the president at a dinner, serving himself wine, without a mask, again.

Post published Sunday February 28.

- Facebook capture

In reality, this image has been hijacked: it was taken at the annual dinner of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, on March 7, 2018, long before the Covid-19 epidemic.

A reverse image search on Google images allows you to find several articles, including one from

L'Express

, covering this evening, and using this photo from AFP.

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