A thick fog caused the plane of the President of the Republic to deviate by about fifty kilometers on Friday, November 25. Emmanuel Macron landed in Dole (Jura), before joining Dijon, where, on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, he had come to relaunch the “great cause” renewed under this second five-year term. An emergency, people murmured within the presidential camp. Five years after the #metoo movement, tens of thousands of people demonstrated on November 19 against “the impunity of the aggressors”while more than 120 feminicides have been committed in France since the beginning of the year.
However, this visit took place in a heavy atmosphere, less than twenty-four hours after the announcement by the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) of the opening of two judicial inquiries in connection with the financing of his presidential campaigns in 2017 and 2022. Emmanuel Macron wanted to nip the admittedly timid criticisms of his opponents in the bud. ” I fear nothing “he reacted to the cameras, adding that “many political attacks” targeted the American consulting firm McKinsey.
“I want justice to do its job in the normal way (…). Some would like to politicize it”he returned, saying he believed that “the heart of the investigation” don’t aim for it. The tone, more placid than combative, contrasted with that of his last visit to Côte-d’Or, in the middle of the countryside. ” Do not mix everything up “, he was annoyed by defending the use of consulting firms. This time he conceded that “everything that was said around McKinsey shocked many of us”. “He knows it will last, serialize, but in the end, there will be nothing”defends it François Patriat, senator of the Côte-d’Or.
On the subject of the day, no effect of political breath. Barely arrived in Dijon, the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, had to leave for the Senate. That of the interior, Gérald Darmanin, was retained in Brussels. Only Isabelle Rome, Minister Delegate for Equality between Women and Men, accompanied the Head of State, without saying a word. Spontaneously, Mr. Macron did not cite the historic vote for the inclusion of the right to abortion in the Constitution, nor the fight of Iranian women for their freedoms – questioned, he nevertheless welcomed a “revolution for universalism” in Iran and referred to as” essential “ women’s right to control their bodies.
Emmanuel Macron facing two women victims of violence
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