Brigette macron hits Emmanuel

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has anyone seen this on the news?! What do we all think, it’s all a bit bizarre

No she is going for him
Been there, got the Tshirt ect.

Mistress?

I wonder if Marine Le Pen will make any comment. Or indeed will anyone in France publicly to condemn it.

The spin is happening already though, they were just playfully messing around it seems.

It was a hit and you can see he was upset by it.

wow some ageist and misogynistic comments

@Toootss all couples argue but it’s not considered normal to hit someone in the face when you row with them.

This^

The fact that she has 2 kids older than him...

Maybe he hit her first

Did you manage to keep a straight face when you typed that?

If it had been his hand and her face, this thread would be very different.

You don't find domestic violence shocking? I'm very sorry to hear that. It should never be normalised.

I'm disturbed by the rush to defend this woman. If it were the other way around, would you be so desperate to make excuses?

Maybe he did. And if so, he was wrong too. But to imply that this is normal behaviour for couples having a tiff is very strange.

Oh that's ok then. As long as it wasn't a punch 🙄

It was clearly assault - it was a smack to his jaw and she had to reach up to do it.

We need to call it what it is:

Domestic violence

And yet you're minimizing domestic violence by putting it down to 'couples having a row'.

I do hope you're never called for jury service.

I hope he does have a mistress. He needs to leave that haggard old woman who groomed him as a minor.

I was thinking if it was any other couple it would immediately be put down to dementia.

We saw her hit him.

I'm feeling very sorry for him

Not sure what worse, her smacking him or her having a relationship with a man younger than her own kids.

Let's hope macron can free himself and get rid of that nasty person.

How many years has he left in his role as head of state?

Hard for some to accept the man isn't always the one in the wrong.

Fucking Hell.

From what I’ve heard it’s unlikely to be a mistress.

If she's done this so close to an open plane door with cameras everywhere then she's very comfortable with this level of casual violence. It's not going to be the first time is it?

Are you new to Mumsnet?

There are always vile posts excusing female violence.

Some people tie themselves into a pretzel making excuses for it.