Cannes: altercation between the director general of the festival and a policeman

The peacekeeper would have tried to stop Thierry Frémaux, who was driving fast on the sidewalk. At the time, he said he wanted to file a complaint.

By Nathan Joubioux for Le Point

QFour days after the opening of the Cannes Film Festival, an argument broke out between Thierry Frémaux, the general director of the festival, and a municipal policeman in Cannes. The altercation took place on Friday May 19, in front of the Carlton hotel on the Croisette, in the evening. In a video posted on Twitter by Éric Morillot, a former journalist for Sud Radio and CNews, the peacekeeper is seen pushing the general delegate with both hands. ” I’ll complain. You hit me, it’s filmed, it’s going to go very far, ”invective Thierry Frémaux, pointing the finger at the policeman, while he was riding his bicycle.

The video, seen almost 800,000 times, does not allow us to see the origin of this confrontation. But according to the former journalist, the police officer asked Thierry Frémaux to stop, twice, while the latter was riding his bicycle on the sidewalk, reports West France. The spokesperson for the town hall explained to France 3: “Thierry Frémaux arrives very quickly on his electric bike, the municipal policeman, who has done his job very well, tries to stop him and runs behind him… That’s all, they shook hands afterwards. »