After yesterday’s snapshot where the Brigitte Macron seems to slap her husband in front of the cameras, just before landing from the presidential aircraft to Hanoi, Emmanuel Macron He tried this morning to show a cool and united person, as he publicly appeared on the side of the first lady on the last day of his official visit to Vietnam – a visit overshadowed by what many interpreted as a public marital quarrel.
French President Emmanuel Macron, trying to limit the lounge that broke out after a television plan where Brigitte seems to land her two hands on the face shortly before landing from the presidential aircraft in Hanoi on Sunday, she said last night that it was going to be. “Marital toy”.
At the same time, he accused misinformation campaigns of transmitting the video out of the frame.
“We were joking with my wife as someone does it quite often,” he said, adding that the incident is exaggerated: “It became a kind of geoplastic disaster.”
Today (27.05.2025), the presidential pair appeared hand in hand During his arrival at the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, where Macron was going to speak – just hours after he called “sprayed” those who travele on conspiracy theories for his marriage.
The French president also referred to recent fake news according to which He used cocaine with Kir Starmer and Friedrich Mertz, or that he had Curious handshake with Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
However, the situation worsened when his office initially claimed that the video in question was “fake, made of artificial intelligence”, to force a few hours later to admit that the material was authentic.
“We were fighting, but we were more joking. It surprised me, “Macron told reporters in Vietnam.
“Now this has become a worldwide disaster and some are weaving theories,” he added.
“For three weeks, there have been videos that show me to share cocaine sachets, to be plagued with the Turkish president and now fighting with my wife.
In fact, in these three videos I either wipe my nose, greeting someone, or just joking with my wife – as we often do. Nothing more, “he concluded. “None of this is true … Let’s calm down a little bit.”
The video in question:
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, not her face, appear, and raising her hands to the French president’s face, in something that could look like a little blow.
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.
Russia is mocking Macron after the viral video with his wife Brigitte – “Kremlin’s hand?”
In Russia, the video with the controversial snapshot was often broadcast on state -run news networks, according to the French Agency and Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Maria Sakharova He found an opportunity to ridicule him.
“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.