He was to talk about international issues, but did not escape a parenthesis on the slap he received on Tuesday, during a trip to Tain-l'Hermitage.
A few minutes before the end of a press conference he held this Thursday, Emmanuel Macron spoke and tempered "overflow".
"We must not accept anything with regard to those who represent a public authority because in a democracy like ours, you have freedom of expression," he told journalists.
The French president nevertheless relativized the episode, distinguishing it from "violence, the real one." That suffered by women who die under the blows of their companion or too many of our fellow citizens in transport when they return home ”. "I do not think that French society today is in a moment of great tension", he relativized.