Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte, the images censored by the Elysée that outrage France – Libero Quotidiano

The French president Emmanuel Macron and the premiere dame Brigitte awarded with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor the Egyptian president Al Sisi, sparking an embarrassing diplomatic incident with Italy. The slap for the affair of Jules Regeni and that even cooler than Patrick Zaki | it is evident, but at the Élysée the realpolitik. Egypt is too important a commercial, military and strategic partner to allow itself the luxury of bringing out Cairo’s lack of respect for human rights. Of course, the lavish ceremony staged in Paris is objectively a sensational fall in style from a communicative point of view. But it was Macron himself, on the day of the Egyptian court’s decision to extend the imprisonment of Zaki, a student of the University of Bologna, by another 45 days, who commented on the question as follows: “Better to maintain a demanding dialogue rather than practicing a boycott“Obviously, in France, the demanding dialogue passes through no real condemnation of the abuses of the Egyptian regime and perhaps even a beautiful medal on the chest.

The case, however, risks overwhelming Macron too, because the images of the dictator’s award ceremony were censored in France and broadcast only in Egypt, for the use and consumption of internal propaganda. But the authors of the French broadcast Daily (broadcast on Tmc), explains the Corriere della Sera, intercepted them on the Egyptian presidency website. The conductor Yann Barthes he argued: “Today, for the first time, we had to go to the website of an authoritarian regime to find out what was happening at the Elysée”. Not a good scene.