The president visited the Indian Ocean territory devastated by Cyclone Chido.
French President Emmanuel Macron, already struggling politically in the National Assembly, is getting flak at home for swearing while responding to hecklers during a trip to the cyclone-devastated French overseas territory of Mayotte, an Indian Ocean archipelago off the southeast coast of Africa.
Almost a week since the natural disaster, Macron was visiting the islands yesterday and received a frosty response from citizens.
Emmanuel Macron swore during a furious exchange with residents of the cyclone-hit islands of Mayotte on Thursday night, telling a jeering crowd in the French territory “if this wasn’t France, you’d be in a bath of shit 10,000 times worse”.
Seven days and you are not able to get the people water!" ... Don't pit people against each other. If you set people against each other, we're screwed."When one resident shouted at Macron ... the president retorted
You are happy to be in France. If it wasn't for France, you would be 10,000 times worse off,