Macron Clarifies Viral Clip of Wife Slapping His Face: ‘Not a Fight

Emmanuel Macron has denied he and his wife, Brigitte, had an altercation afterwards a viral video answer by Russian accompaniment media and French far-right accounts appeared to appearance her blame him in the face as they able to get off an alike in Vietnam.

The video, attempt by an Associated Columnist camera operator, shows the French admiral actualization in the aperture of the alike at the alpha of a appointment to Hanoi. His wife’s duke appears to boost him, causing him to footfall aback afore convalescent and waving.

Brigitte’s anatomy is not arresting and there is no way of alive whether the action was playful, as Macron told reporters afterwards, or allotment of an altercation amidst the brace – as the agent for the Russian adopted admiral suggested.

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Maria Zakharova said on Telegram the admiral had accustomed “a appropriate hook” from his wife. “Did the aboriginal adult adjudge to acclamation up her bedmate with a affable pat on the audacity and blurred her strength?” she asked in a biting post.

“Did she appetite to fix his collar but concluded up extensive the admired face?” Zakharova added, afterwards the Russia Today TV approach and associated amusing media accounts had again aired the clip. “Here’s a hint: maybe it was the ‘hand of the Kremlin’.”

Macron told reporters in Hanoi that he and his wife were “joking around, as we do absolutely often”. An Élysée Palace official told French media the arena showed “a moment of closeness. But that was abundant to augment the cabal theorists.”

Another Elysée antecedent said the brace were “decompressing one aftermost time afore the alpha of the visit, blithe around”. Macron “loves arena jokes like on his wife afore official occasions, and she consistently responds like this … It wasn’t alike a slap.”

Macron acclaimed that added videos of him had been misinterpreted. People accept admitting “I aggregate a bag of cocaine, tussled with the Turkish president, now that I’m accepting a calm altercation with my wife … None of this is true. Everyone needs to calm down.”

Zakharova and the US cabal theorist Alex Jones this ages abominably accused Macron, the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, and the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, of application drugs on a alternation to Kyiv, claiming a channelled tissue was a bag of cocaine.

Macron told reporters in Hanoi the internet accounts authoritative the claims were “familiar”, allying Russians with French extremists, abacus that commentators had explained this morning that “my address was that of a aged husband”.

France and Vietnam on Monday active deals on Airbus planes, defence and added pacts annual €9bn (£7.55bn) as Macron and his wife boarded on the aboriginal academic appointment by a French presidential brace to the country’s above antecedents in about a decade.

The deals with Vietnam appear amidst barter agitation sparked by US admiral Donald Trump’s tariffs and awning the acquirement of 20 Airbus planes, cooperation on nuclear energy, defence, abuse and amphibian transport, satellites and vaccines.

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