A French retiree has symbolically filed a complaint against President Emmanuel Macron after his controversial remarks on the unvaccinated against COVID-19 that he said he wanted to “piss off”, declaring himself “shocked and hurt” by these statements.
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Comments deemed “discriminatory and insulting” by Didier Lalande, 63, living in Rosiers-d’Egletons in Corrèze, in central France.
As of Wednesday, he lodged a complaint for what he calls “defamation and public threats by a person in authority”, he explained to AFP on Saturday, document in hand, confirming information from the regional newspaper La Mountain.
In an interview on Tuesday, Mr. Macron said: “the unvaccinated, I really want to piss them off. And so we will continue to do so, until the end. This is the strategy ”.
The retiree, not vaccinated against COVID-19, who says he is “shocked and hurt” by this interview, claims a “symbolic” approach, which has no chance of succeeding, the President of the Republic being covered by his presidential immunity.
“They impose constraints on me that I respect,” but “I find it unbearable to question the citizenship of the unvaccinated,” he said.
The controversial remarks of the French president triggered a political storm, in the midst of an already very tense examination in the National Assembly of the bill transforming the health passport into a vaccine passport, adopted in pain Thursday.
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