What the disgust of the walkabouts.
After the slap affair, a new incident came to mar the "tour de France of the territories" of Emmanuel Macron.
Visiting the sanctuary of Lourdes this Friday afternoon, the President of the Republic was insulted by a man, as can be seen in this video, while he was religiously listening to the troupe of the musical "Bernadette de Lourdes" .
" Shame on you !
It is a scandal !
You are an atheist, a primary atheist, you have no reason to be there, ”said the man, before being ejected from the crowd by the security services present on the spot.
While struggling, the individual injured a Sanctuary guard who was trying to keep him at a safe distance from the President.
First President of the Republic in Lourdes
The Head of State reacted little, applauding the singers in front of him.
Several hundred pilgrims were present at Notre-Dame de Lourdes, the largest French Catholic pilgrimage center, which welcomes some 15,000 daily visitors.
Emmanuel Macron is the first president of the Fifth Republic to visit this symbolic place of Catholicism.
Before going to the sanctuary of Lourdes, the Head of State admired the cave where Bernadette Soubirous would have had apparitions of the Virgin in 1858.
After being closed during the successive confinements, “the sanctuary comes back to life but we mainly welcome French people.
The foreigners, who represented 65% of the pilgrims, are not there ”, indicated Mrg Antoine Hérouard, the apostolic delegate of the place.
The sanctuary hopes to receive just over a million visitors this year against 3.5 million per year before the crisis.
For Mrg Hérouard, the visit of the President of the Republic "is a recognition of the importance of the sanctuary", "an unmissable place" in the region which has "a reputation throughout the world".
Justice
Emmanuel Macron slapped: Damien T. appeals against his additional sentences
Justice
Hérault: A sixty-year-old convicted of having threatened village elected officials with death
Religion
Emmanuel Macron
Lourdes
Toulouse