French President Emmanuel Macron has called "Prime Minister" Boris Johnson a "clown" and regretted that he always responds to critical situations
"with the same circus,"
as revealed by the political weekly 'Le Canard Echaîné'. Macron's remarks to a group of advisers came on November 24 upon his arrival in Zagreb, a day after the English Channel tragedy in which 27 immigrants died, most of them Iraqi and Iranian Kurds.
The French president reacted angrily to the letter released by Johnson on Twitter in which he
demanded the return to French territory of the immigrants
who managed to make the crossing.
According to 'Le Canard Echaîné', Macron had not even had time to read the letter when he saw that it was already circulating openly on the networks and that
its content did not fit the conversation he had
the previous day with the 'premier'.
"BoJo talks to me, he seems to be with his feet on the ground, everything is going well and we debate as two adults," Macron allegedly said.
"
But then he goes and nails us
, sometimes before and sometimes after, in an inelegant way. It's always the same circus."
Macron's automatic reaction was to cancel the invitation to British Home Secretary
Priti Patel
to the meeting held on Saturday with representatives of the European Commission and the Belgian, German and Dutch governments to seek solutions to the migration crisis in the English Channel. .
"Let's be serious!"
, Macron came to blurt out Johnson shortly afterwards at a press conference.
The revelations of 'Le Canard Echaîné' - the magazine "most feared" by French politicians - threaten to reignite tensions between London and Paris.
The frictions go back to the final stretch of Brexit
a year ago and have been amplified by the "sausage war" (on behalf of the Irish Protocol), by the litigation of fishing licenses, by the Aukus military alliance with Australia and the United States and due to the flow of immigrants in the English Channel, which this year have reached 25,700 (triple the number in 2020).
"Boris Johnson realized very early on the catastrophic situation for the British,"
Macron has come to say, according to the political weekly.
"There was no gasoline in the pumps, many things were missing in the stores ... And he goes and positions himself as a victim, makes France his scapegoat and tries to turn any simple situation into a complex problem."
"We have been in this situation since March," warned the French president.
"He has done it with the 'sausage war', with the fishing issue and with the submarine issue (...)
In private he tells you that he is sorry to act this way
, but then he admits that above all it must act in the face of public opinion. "
"It is very sad to see a great country, with which we could do much more, led by a clown," concluded Macron, always according to 'Le Canard Echaîné'.
"Johnson has the attitude of a real worthless person."
Downing Street has for the moment preferred not to reply to the words attributed to the French president.
"The important thing is that people on both sides of the Canal want us to focus on preventing further loss of human life," said a British government spokesman.
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