France: outcry after the visit of the gendarmes to a high school student who had arrested Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron had been arrested by a high school student in Gaillac, about the appointment "at the head of the state of men accused of rape and violence against women".
Here, the president visits gendarmes in this town in the Tarn, June 9, 2022. AP - Caroline Blumberg
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After asking President Emmanuel Macron a question during his trip to Gaillac, in the Tarn, Thursday, June 9, an 18-year-old high school student received a visit from the gendarmes at her high school.
Social networks then ignited and thousands of Internet users took up the question that Laura asked the president: why put “
at the head of the state men accused of rape and violence against women?
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On the images of the incident, we do not see any aggressiveness on the part of Laura: it is just if she keeps the hand of Emmanuel Macron a little longer than he would have liked.
This is to answer his question:
“
You put at the head of the state
men accused of rape
and violence against women.
Why ?
Please answer me.
»
What the president did by declaring that she “
did not understand that he had accompanied the release of speech
”, but that at the same time there was
the presumption of innocence
.
A response that "
stayed in the throat
" of the young woman, in her words: "
He treated me like a kid, I cried
," said Laura, who herself was the victim of fondling in the metro when she lived in the Paris region.
Everything could have ended there, but the next day the gendarmes landed at his school to question him.
They have since apologized on social networks, explaining that they had come "
to offer her to collect a possible complaint, since she had presented herself as a victim
".
What Laura recognizes… while explaining that the discussion quickly focused on her arrest of the president the day before: “
It was not to be done
”, one of the gendarmes would have told him.
Something to arouse emotion on social networks: behind
the hashtag #laquestiondelaura
tens of thousands of Internet users are now asking the president: “
You put at the head of the state men accused of rape and
violence against women
.
Why ?
»
“@EmmanuelMacron, you put at the head of the state men accused of rape and violence against women.
Why ?
Please answer me.
»
Support for Laura.
— Caroline De Haas ✌️ (@carolinedehaas) June 11, 2022
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