French President Emmanuel Macron has been slammed for appearing not to take his own government’s mask mandates seriously, after he was filmed removing his face-covering to cough while speaking to students.
Macron took off his mask after experiencing a mild coughing fit during a speech to a vocational college in Clermont-Ferrand on Tuesday. As the audience giggled nervously, he accepted a glass of water from an assistant who remained at arm’s length, explaining, “We maintain distance, but I’m choking.”
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