"I can tell you that I have no mea culpa, no remorse, no failure to make," said Emmanuel Macron, questioned on the subject of the reconfinement envisaged last January.

"New measures" could nevertheless be taken "in the coming days and weeks". 

Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that he was "right not to reconfine France" at the end of January, refusing any "mea culpa" despite the epidemic resurgence of Covid-19 currently observed.

"I can tell you: we were right not to reconfine France at the end of January because there was not the explosion which was foreseen by all the models", pleaded the chief. of State.

"I can tell you that I have no mea culpa to do, no remorse, no failure," he insisted during a speech from the Elysee after the European summit by videoconference.

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The President of the Republic nevertheless announced "new measures" to be taken "in the coming days and weeks"

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