He wore a t-shirt that read “What are you for?” “. An environmental activist challenged the head of state by calling on him to “listen to scientific reports” on climate change. “I’m here to tell you that we won’t stop, because we’re tired of asking nicely. Hear that, otherwise it’s going to be terrible. I finished what I had to say, ”he said, pointing his index finger at the head of state, but refusing to listen to his answer. “We have already heard you! “, he justified himself.
“You are the demonstration of a form of civic violence”, retorted Emmanuel Macron, questioning him: “I am elected by the French people, you are elected by whom? “. “It’s not a debate! “, insisted the activist. “Well then, leave, if it’s not a debate!” “, replied the President of the Republic. While the young man promised to “not let himself be done”, arguing that “it is the life of (his) little sister who (was) at stake”, Emmanuel Macron took it up by evoking “the life of farmers is the life of our compatriots”.