A French retiree symbolically lodged a complaint against President Emmanuel Macron after his controversial remarks on those unvaccinated against Covid-19.
A French retiree symbolically lodged a complaint against President Emmanuel Macron after his controversial remarks on those unvaccinated against Covid-19 that he said he wanted to “piss off”, saying he was “shocked and hurt” by these statements.
Comments deemed “discriminatory and insulting” by Didier Lalande, 63, resident of Rosiers-d’Egletons in Corrèze, in central France. As of Wednesday, he filed a complaint for what he calls “defamation and public threats by person in authority”, he explained to AFP on Saturday, document in hand, confirming information from the regional newspaper La Mountain.
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In an interview on Tuesday, Mr. Macron said: “the unvaccinated, I really want to piss them off. And so we will continue to do it, until the end. That’s the strategy”. The retiree, not vaccinated against Covid-19, who says he is “shocked and hurt” by this interview, claims a “symbolic” approach, which has no chance of succeeding, the President of the Republic being covered by his presidential immunity. “They impose constraints on me that I respect” but “I find it unbearable to question the citizenship of the unvaccinated,” he said.
The controversial remarks of the French president triggered a political storm, in the midst of an already very tense examination in the National Assembly of the bill transforming the health pass into a vaccination pass, adopted in pain Thursday.
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