Like last year, then in the midst of social protests in France, Emmanuel Macron did not come onto the field to greet the PSG and OL players before the Coupe de France final, Saturday evening at the Stade Pierre- Mauroy.
Emmanuel Macron did not return to the historic protocol of the Coupe de France finals on Saturday, during the clash between Olympique Lyonnais and Paris SG, at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy in the Lille suburbs. The President of the Republic did not go to greet the players on the field before the match kicked off. He had already decided not to do it last year, but it was at the Stade de France (during a Toulouse-Nantes) and especially in the middle of the movement against pension reform.
Just back from New Caledonia, Emmanuel Macron still came to attend the meeting. He therefore went to speak with the Gones then the Parisians in the corridor in front of the locker rooms, accompanied by the president of the FFF Philippe Diallo. He patiently waited for Kylian Mbappé and then embraced the captain of the France team, before speaking to him discreetly for a few moments, in front of the cameras of France TV, one of the two broadcasters of the final.
Emmanuel Macron in a bar in Tourcoing
Note that the President of the Republic went, in the afternoon, to meet Losc supporters in a bar in Tourcoing. He drank a beer with locals, leaving with a Dogues jersey flocked “Emmanuel” with the number 59. He then headed to the Villeneuve-d’Ascq stadium and was probably delighted with the victory of the OM, his favorite club, in the final of the Gambardella Cup against Nancy (4-1), as a curtain-raiser to the grand final.
Macron watched helplessly as the serious incidents occurred on the A1 motorway leading to the Lille metropolis. Supporters of the two clubs clashed, a bus caught fire and the total was around twenty injured. “These are sporting events where you must above all be joyful and sporty. I condemn with the greatest firmness all violence”reacted Emmanuel Macron, as reported The Parisian.
