It was the world before, the time of a certain carelessness, of the miracle in public. That evening, Tuesday, February 18, Pastor Samuel Peterschmitt is still joking. On the stage at the back of the worship hall, the fifties with salt and pepper hair, relaxed in blue shirt and jeans, wanders microphone in hand. Like an American televangelist. “I have good news for you, he exclaims. Mr. Macron did not come. But Jesus is there! ” At the Christian Open Door in Mulhouse (Bas-Rhin), a Pentecostal evangelical church, the assembly – some 2,000 people – laughed. Even ovation. “I assure you. The President of the Republic was not expected to be there. But I’m glad he’s discovering our Bourtzwiller neighborhood. ”
The minister of Mulhouse Christian Open Door Church, Samuel Peterschmitt, at his home on April 2, 2020. Photo Pascal Bastien for “Liberation”
In the afternoon, Emmanuel Macron, it is true, surveyed this 15,000-strong area
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