If not now, when? Russia, through the Foreign Ministry spokesman, Maria Sakharovafound the ideal opportunity to jerk and mocked the Emmanuel Macron After the video that saw the light of publicity showing Brigitte Macron making a gesture that looks like a cufflink to her husband at the time of arriving in Vietnam.
“What is interesting is not this (the video with the snapshot in Hanoi) but what will devise this time to cover this new” Emmanuel Scandal “,” said Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zacharova. “What will be this time? The first lady wanted to make her husband’s fun by caressing him gently on the cheek, but didn’t calculate her power properly? He gave him a scarf, but did he miss? ” Sakharova continued with irony in her post on Telegram. “My proposal: maybe it was the Kremlin’s hand?” he said.
In the controversial video at Hanoi Airport, the door of the French presidential aircraft opens to open and appear Macron, still on the aircraft. At that moment, the hands of his wife appear, not her face, and raising her hands to the French president’s face, in something that could look like a hit.
Macron today denied rumors of a “family brawl” with his wife, saying that the couple were “joking” with each other and asked for “everyone to relax” about the interpretations of these images.
In Russia, the video with the controversial snapshot was often broadcast on government news networks, according to the French Agency.
About three weeks ago, Moscow had again found the reason for Macron and other European leaders. Only then the video was a fake and the leaders of France Macron, Germany Friedrich Mertz and Britain Kir Starmer in the train wagon, on the way to Kiev, where they traveled, made use of cocaine.
French President Emmanuel Macron was slapped by his wife during a family dispute that was caught on camera.
The incident occurred shortly after the French presidential plane landed in Vietnam.
What exactly enraged his wife remains unclear. pic.twitter.com/O8bnm4wVMC
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Today, Zaharova connected yesterday’s video to Hanoi with the video in the train wagon to Kiev, repeating the claims of drug use.
“Last time, when the media saw a ‘snowy evening’ in the train wagon (ed. To Kiev), Macron’s representatives could not think better than accusing journalists of spreading false information,” the Russian official said.
For his part, Macron today attributed these manipulations to “networks that are quite easily detectable” and hostile to him, showing specific “Russians” and “extremists in France”.