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An Islamist party in Pakistan has called off its violent protests against Emmanuel Macron claiming that the government has pledged to boycott French goods. Weeks of furious demonstrations have followed the French president’s staunch defence of freedom of expression since a schoolteacher was beheaded by a jihadist for showing his class cartoons of the Prophet … Read more
French lockdown restrictions due to come into force Friday morning at 00:01am Emmanuel Macron’s target of slashing France’s coronavirus infections to 5,000 a day is impossible to achieve in the month-long lockdown he announced last night, his top scientific adviser said today. Professor Jean-Francois Delfraissy said France would ‘need more time’ to bring infections down … Read more
Shoppers stood on pictures of Emmanuel Macron’s face and used them as a social distancing guide in a Libyan clothing store today, amid anger at the French president for defending Prophet Mohammed cartoons and cracking down on radical Islam. The identical Macron posters – defaced with footprints – were laid out at appropriate intervals in … Read more
French First Lady Brigitte Macron’s daughter has hinted that she may have ambitions to become involved in politics, telling a French publication that she often meets with government ministers to offer them advice. Tiphaine Auzière, 36, was just ten years old when her mother, then a drama teacher at the school she attended, met the … Read more
The man whose marriage ended when the future French President Emmanuel Macron had an affair with his wife died nine months ago – with no announcement until today. André-Louis Auzière, a 69-year-old retired banker, ended his days in ‘the strictest privacy’ last December, according to one of the children he had with Brigitte Macron, who … Read more
Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron spent a weekend exchanging WhatsApp messages about quarantine-free travel between Britain and France – blindsiding officials on both sides of the Channel Boris Johnson uses WhatsApp to regularly converse with Emmanuel Macron The two world leaders were in touch throughout last weekend on messaging app PM announced travellers from France would … Read more