The Associated Press news agency captured on May 25 at night, in Hanói, the moment in which The presidential plane door opens.
President Macron appears in profile, In full discussion With someone, without apparently realizing that the door of the device was already open. Suddenly, his wife is seen – of which only his arms are observed – pushing his face.
Macron seems surprised, turns quickly and Greet the press with a hand gesture. The couple descends the stairs of the plane and Emmanuel Macron offers the arm to his wife, as is his custom, but she does not accept it and relies on the railing.
The video, which went viral, unleashed a flood of comments on social networks.
Initially, the Macron office denied the authenticity of the imagesbefore it was confirmed that they were true.
Subsequently, a president’s collaborator described the incident as a harmless “quarrel” of a couple.
Another member of his circle fell from the incident. “It was a time when the president and his wife They relaxed before the start of the trip; They were joking, “said this source that asked not to be named.” It’s a moment of complicity, “he added.
Vietnam is the first stop of a tour of almost a week of Macron through Southeast Asia, in which Indonesia and Singapore will also visit.
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