Somewhere between Toulon and La Seyne-sur-Mer, in the Var, throne Emmanuel Macron.
Or rather a reproduction of his face, plastered on an advertising space.
Motorists driving in this corner of the Var cannot miss it.
The Head of State is represented there in kangaroo briefs.
The model of underwear chosen for this photomontage is important.
The author of this cartoon, Michelangelo Flori, refers to the diplomatic crisis with Australia that erupted on September 16.
France was to sell - to "the land of the Kangaroos" therefore - submarines for 56 billion euros.
The contract was broken for the benefit of the United States.
So here is France "humiliated", and here is Emmanuel Macron in undress on the national road.
Proud of his misdeed, Michel-Ange Flori posted a photo of his work on social networks on Saturday.
“Even Australians don't want it”, we can read in the caption of this publication with 1,800 shares.
His fans are hilarious: “Hats off!
"," Magnificent "," Bravo not to give up ", they comment.
The Var display has struck again… following the loss of the submarine contract with Australia! 😂 pic.twitter.com/s8V1SBJ39N
- Richard Krieger (@ Krieger66362259) September 25, 2021
It must be said that "the Var display" is not at its first attempt.
Michelangelo Flori regularly pokes fun at these two personal billboards.
The Var was even sentenced on September 17.
He had published posters representing President Emmanuel Macron as Hitler.
The Toulon criminal court asks him for 10,000 euros.
Right to caricature or insult?
“The right to caricature was buried in Toulon. We are appealing, ”the troublemaker immediately tweeted. On learning that the President had lodged a complaint, the agitator had declared: "In macronia we can laugh at the ass of the prophet, it is satire but to make up the president as a dictator is blasphemy". The man with the criminal record for violence against a depositary of public authority and theft, said he simply wanted to take advantage of his freedom of expression.
But on September 17, the Toulon court followed the requisitions of the prosecutor Laurent Robert, who had denounced in his indictment "an obvious desire to harm".
"Mr. Flori is perhaps irreverent, rude, demagogue but not at all guilty", pleaded his lawyer in court, recalling that these posters had been produced "in reaction to a controversial and political debate".
In 2013, the offense of insulting the President of the Republic was repealed, after a judgment of the European Court of Human Rights condemning France.
If the Head of State again lodges a complaint, this new provocation could be judged in the context of a possible insult or public defamation against him.
Michel-Ange Flori repeat that his posters are "apolitical".
However, they are not devoid of messages: “Mr. President, let's change the law.
Death for terrorists and their accomplices ”, could read in 2015 on one of its panels, departmental 559 in Seyne-sur-Mer.
The message was addressed to François Hollande, a few days after the attacks of November 13.
And in 1999, a year of tension between Corsica and the mainland, he openly took a stand for the island of beauty on his same billboards.