Brigette macron hits Emmanuel

[Stressedout150]

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

Bet you wouldn’t be so keen to minimise if it was Trump and Melania.

The weird scramble to hide a 'tissue' when he was filmed on board the train. I don't know what it was for sure, people suggested a wrap of coke. People were just a bit baffled at his panicky movements, and again, that cheesy embarrassed grin!

Are you OK?

What we can do at this point is keep calling it out, keep saying it’s unacceptable, because then it lessens it’s acceptability in society and maybe then female paedophiles will start to get the right sentences for their crimes and fewer people will dismiss it.

Yep. It's entirely plausible they were messing about, bantering, what ever. And she's gone 'ah shut up' and covered his mouth with her hands. The only people who know the truth are the ones that were there.

It's on the home page and the world page, with only Ukraine, Gaza and Trump above it.

It doesn’t but why do some only see that. His reaction is vulnerability as pp says.

I wouldn’t like this and I wouldn’t do it. Let alone filmed.

It’s on the front page of my bbc news app

Good grief that's a bit of a leap.

I hate this kind of speculation, it’s meaningless and contextual difficult, half a glimpse
people will interpret it in many different ways usually based on their own thoughts, experiences & agendas
dismissing it, attributing it to a wider violence, illness, accidental or something else ,
what does it achieve except titillating gossip?
it’s not news yet it will be displayed as such because ‘news’ agencies will use it as entertainment
Yes violence can occur behind closed doors and we shouldn’t condone it, yet we also shouldn’t jump to conclusions because it gives us a good story

I was literally just thinking about the Aaron Taylor-Johnson thing writing my comment! Makes me want to gag! And Bonnie Blue flouncing around saying she loves teen boys. I do actually get the double standard given girls are actually more physically vulnerable, emotional, and we can get pregnant etc. But if Macron were my son I would be livid. I dont know why but it gives me bunny boiler vibes. Anyway, hoping Macron is okay must be tough. Even if he loves her, he is a public figure and has a duty to set an example against domestic violence they. Stay strong, Macron

Oh, don’t be so ridiculous. You can’t possibly know that based on that footage.

@NewMoonToday Seriously? Her hands come forward fast, make contact with his face, and he reels backwards , then has to walk away for a moment to compose himself. Watch it again. Do you genuinely think she was “lightly rubbing” his face?

I'm actually really cross at all the minimising going on across social media about this. His face is pushed back, there is nothing gentle or light about it.

I think it’s not so much that a married couple were fighting that was shocking as the fact that something that wasn’t meant to be seen was suddenly exposed in an extremely public way. It’s that jarring feeling when the polished veneer slips. Added to that is the shock of the apparent violence of the gesture. It is quite something to attack someone’s face like that, and very hard to see how this could be just playing around.

Do the French even eat marmite?

I agree. It makes me feel sad and worried that people think this is normal acceptable behaviour. No wonder so many people are murdered by their partners if violence is so tolerated.

From what I’ve read, his parents were indeed extremely unhappy about their “relationship”, probably because they recognised it for what it was - a grooming and abusive scenario. BM’s marriage broke up over it too, of course. She should have been prosecuted but instead she is la premiere dame of France. Anyone who isn’t shocked by it needs to have a word with themselves.
Years ago I worked with a woman like BM. She started a “relationship” with a friend of her young teenage son. She moved him into her home, supposedly because he was happier there than with his parents and claimed that the relationship didn’t become physical until he turned 16 - in other words, it was fear of the law, not any ethical or moral reasons that held her back. She was in her mid 40s at the time. Back then this sort of thing was less acknowledged and possibly less well understood, but like Mme Macron, she was an abuser who should have been prosecuted. It utterly sickens me.

OMG yes just looked at the video of Brigitte stepping down from the airplane - her legs are anorexic thin, no?

It's awful. Poor man. If the genders were reversed and it was, say, Jacinta Arhern seen with her husband's hand shoving her in the mouth, there'd be much more worldwide outrage imho

I guess when you’ve been groomed from a young age and for so long it’s hard to know what is love and what is psychological abuse.

Hell, maybe they are in love. But that doesn’t make it okay to me. You’ve robbed a person of their childhood and groomed them. It’s awful.

That was debunked - a better quality video shows that’s it’s clearly a crumpled tissue and the metal piece was part of the folder in front of the German chancellery (that was meant to be some kind of drug paraphernalia too I think)

@Kissedbyfire1 prosecuted for what though? A 39 year old having a relationship with a 15 year old is sick, but it isn't illegal in France as that is the age of consent.

He needs to leave before she really hurts him- shoves him down the stairs? but expect he won't because he's had years of it. It's his normal.

It's out in the open now. I do hope it's not normalised by the press, politics,

If it was just a friendly tiff, why did she refuse to take his arm he offered her on the steps down from the plane? She looks v angry & slightly ashamed as looking down rather then up & smiling.