The Élysée has just turned around in the face of the controversy.
However on Saturday, the presidential palace congratulated in a tweet the baker winner of the prize for the best baguette in Paris, ensuring that "
as tradition dictates
", he would become for a year the new supplier of the chef's table. State.
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But this Monday, the services of the presidency told the
Parisian
that "
the Elysee has not made contact with this gentleman
", ensuring that it is "
not automatic
" that the winner of the prize becomes the official baker of the palace .
A decision which, it seems, nevertheless constitutes a first, because in previous years this privilege was systematically granted to the baker rewarded by this competition created by the City of Paris in 1994.
Anti-French and Islamist positions on Facebook
The award granted to Makram Akrout had been quickly criticized on the internet in recent days: the winner would have, according to his critics, defended anti-French and Islamist positions on Facebook.
It was the Tunis Tribune news site, "
portal to Tunisians around the world,
" which reported the emerging controversy by posting screenshots on September 27.
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At issue: publications relayed by Makram Akrout's Facebook account.
For the most part written in Arabic, they sometimes evoked France, like this one: “
France encourages and propagates decadence in our countries to protect its colonialist interests and pushes us to distance ourselves from religion and Islamic values.
"
The baker had declared in return to have lodged a complaint, claiming that his account had been "
hacked
".
His lawyer, however, later acknowledged the facts, saying: “
Like many Internet users, he was able to share in the past content published on social networks without grasping all the content.
"
He understood that it was not necessarily ideal to come
Emmanuel Grégoire, first deputy (PS) to the mayor of Paris
Saturday Emmanuel Grégoire, first deputy (PS) to the mayor of Paris, had meanwhile estimated that "
if by chance it was a character who had had unhappy expressions
", then that posed "
a subject on the delivery of the 'Élysée
'.
The same day, Makram Akrout had not come to collect his prize and had been represented.
“
He understood that it was not necessarily ideal to come,
” commented Emmanuel Grégoire.
But if his baguettes will not end up in the bread basket of the Élysée, the fact remains that customers of the “Boulangers de Reuilly” (12th arrondissement) now have the assurance of buying the best baguettes. tradition of the capital.
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