Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron: Élysée reacts to alleged push video

What loves yourself, that teases? With this statement, the office of French President Emmanuel Macron (47) reacted to the viral video on Monday, which causes a sensation, especially on the net. The recording shows a scene at Hanoi Airport in Vietnam, from where the Macron’s first part of their Southeast Asia trip broke out. In the short clip – ” – it looks as if Brigitte Macron (72) would push her husband’s face away with her hands.

The aircraft door opens, then Emmanuel Macron appears in the door. Shortly thereafter, two hands with red sleeves are in the picture and grab the face of the French president, which is interpreted by some as a push. Macron seems surprised briefly on the recording, but then quickly regained. He waves the waiting press outside the plane and disappears from the picture again.

When the couple later steps down the aircraft staircase, he offers his wife the arm in the red blazer, which she does not accept. Instead, she sticks to the railing. Now speculate the Internet and the media about what has probably occurred between the president and his wife. Or whether it is even a “attack” or a “scandal”.

The couple only tackled, “CNN” quotes a source close to the president. It was a “moment of togetherness”, it continues from the insider from the Élysée Palace. “It was a moment when the president and his wife relaxed one last time before the start of the trip and teased each other,” said the source. There was nothing more necessary to feed the “mills of the conspiracy theorists”.

Macron himself also said according to the US broadcaster: “There is a video that shows me how I joke and my wife Necke …”. At the same time, he criticized the many theories that were brought into circulation.