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French President Emmanuel Macron has assumed complete responsibility of the raging bodyguard scandal that has rocked his appeal among voters and led to a decline in his popularity which soared after France won the FIFA world cup earlier this month.
Earlier this week, parliament suspended its normal activities to focus on a scandal that opponents of President Emmanuel Macron are calling “Une Affaire d’Etat”, which is a state crisis comparable in seriousness to Watergate scandal in the United States.
Macron’s deputy chief of staff, a 26-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan origin who has long been President Macron’s personal bodyguard was caught on camera at a May Day protest borrowing a helmet from a riot police officer, striding out into the crowd and manhandling two protesters whom police thought may have been throwing projectiles.
As criticism grew over President Macron’s silence over the scandal for six days, he finally broke his silence yesterday and assumed total responsibility for the incident, “If you’re looking for the person responsible for this, then it’s me and only me………My team at the Elysée Palace did what it had to do……No one on my team has been protected, ever…..It was me who decided to trust Benalla and it was me who approved that sanction.”
