Videos: French President Emmanuel Macron slapped!

Why would anyone do this?

A man slapped President Emmanuel Macron of France in the face on Tuesday during a visit by the French leader to the southeast of the country, prompting swift political condemnation as a video of the incident spread rapidly on social media. 

In the footage filmed at midday by a witness, Mr. Macron is seen approaching a small crowd of people in Tain-l’Hermitage, a town in the Drôme region of France that he was visiting to speak with members of the food and restaurant industry ahead of a new loosening of Covid 19-related restrictions this week. 

As Mr. Macron was starting a conversation with a longhaired man wearing a khaki T-shirt, the man gripped his forearm and slapped the president on the face, the video showed. 

The man also shouted “Down with Macronie,” a term sometimes used derogatively to refer to Mr. Macron’s administration.

Two people have been arrested prompting condemnation of the attack across the political spectrum. Watch: