“I don’t like what you did in front of me“Emmanuel Macron was quite upset when he entered Sainte-Anne basilica in East Jerusalem. In question, an altercation with the Israeli security forces who tried to enter the building to secure the premises, seeming to have forgotten that the Sainte-Anne basilica is a French territory and that it is therefore the French forces which have all authority.
“There are rules, friends. We will respect them (…). Things have to happen as calmly as they have happened since this morning. I am not in danger inside. So do not no things that are provocative. ”
If this exchange in English made so much talk, it is because it recalls a scene that took place almost a quarter of a century earlier, with Jacques Chirac in the limelight.
When they saw that Emmanuel Macron was going to the same place as his predecessor, many wondered what was going to happen. “Journalists dreamed of it, diplomats feared it, Emmanuel Macron did it“, abstract Release. “In Jerusalem, Jupiter made a fuss“, headlines the newspaper.
“We could prefer the original to the copy, and quibble about the spontaneity of the moment, criticism that we could also make the famous Chiraquian outburst in 1996. One certainty: the president made confetti from the official program“, continues the newspaper which recalls that Emmanuel Macron was supposed to walk only 70 meters in the Old City. But, in addition to the Holy Sepulcher, the President of the Republic finally visited the holy places of the other main monotheistic religions: the Wailing Wall and the Mosque plaza. The program was so late that it made Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority, wait for several hours. “The height would have been that Emmanuel Macron, wanting to imitate Chirac, the idol of the Arab world, ended up offending the Palestinians …“, concludes Liberation.
“The power of the images during this day was such that it crushed the rest, the political meetings”, written The world. Camille Langlade, head of the political service of BFMTV goes even further. “This scene is a failure because it completely obscures the message of Emmanuel Macron“, also came to Israel to reassure the Jews of France, she explains.
Stroke of blood or stroke of com ‘?
This is exactly the title of an article by BFM TV.
“One has the impression, seeing these images, that Emmanuel Macron thinks he has succeeded in a good stroke of communication.“, believes Paris Match columnist Bruno Jeudy on the set of BFM. “I don’t know what he tried to do, but it’s a little imitation of Chirac. It’s a bit overplayed. Emmanuel Macron knows full well how the scene of tensions between Jaques Chirac and the Israeli security services had marked “.
Even Macron’s English accent has been pointed out. For some, the president has overplayed his French accent to better match that of Chirac.
“He speaks better English than that, reacted Etienne Gernelle, the director of Point on set from C to you. “It’s very curious. Either it is the nervousness, or it makes its Chirac. It’s not exactly the same place, it’s not exactly the same reasons but it’s true that the two scenes are very similar. “
“It is surprising because he speaks fluent English. In this case I think he speaks English with this accent to be sure to be understood by all the people around him. I think there is no other explanation“, explains BFM TV columnist Laurent Neumann. For him, Macron’s real coup de com ‘, if coup de com’ there is, is having managed to visit all three places in one day saints. “It’s even a political coup“, he concludes.
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