The Elysée mocks a rumor accusing Emmanuel Macron of hiding cocaine | EUROtoday

The most coarse manipulations are generally sufficient to react. During the evening of Sunday, 11 to Monday, May 12, the Elysée X account revealed a message to clarify that Emmanuel Macron had not been filmed alongside an embarrassing sachet of cocaine, as mentioned through the weekend of many conspiratorial accounts.

“This false info is propagated by the enemies of France, overseas as with us. We should stay vigilant within the face of manipulation “denounced the Elysée in his tweet in English, while zooming in on the supposed cocaine sachet. “It’s a handkerchief, to blow your nostril”specifies the message. Usually, the executive nevertheless avoids responding to particularly grotesque rumors.

A rumor taken up and amplified by Alex Jones

Since May 11, and the publication of videos of the meeting between Emmanuel Macron, the new German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, and the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, on a train to kyiv, many Prorussian accounts accused the French president of having wanted to hide a drug sachet when the photographers arrive, based on video extracts in low resolution.

“A cocaine night with mates?” »»thus questioned a conspiratorial account called “reality”. “When will you’ve gotten a narcotics of medication for all politicards?” »»rebellious a surfer. Others presented the Friedrich Merz pen sometimes like a straw sometimes like a “Coke spoon”. The allegation was taken up by the American “Pope” of conspiracy, the entrepreneur Alex Jones, sentenced in 2022 for qualifying a killing in a school school ” prank “. “The three [dirigeants] appear smashed “he said.

Very shared on X, a social network which has become a lair of disinformation since its acquisition by Elon Musk, at the end of 2022, these affirmations had however been quickly denied by numerous observers, journalists of verification as simple vigilant internet users. As CheckNews quickly noted, and as attested by photos and video reports in high definition, the alleged suspect “sachet” is, in fact, only a simple paper handkerchief.

Recurring attacks since 2017

This is not the first time that the prorussian conspiracy circles have been trying to pass Emmanuel Macron for a cocaine. Already, in 2017, during the in-between-tours of the presidential election, while the emails of his campaign team had been hacked, extreme right accounts had tried to make believe that they contained proof of cocaine order for the candidate of En Marche!

Since then, many dependent content has been looking to present it at all costs as a regular drug consumer, for example through montages of moments when Mr. Macron touches his nose in public, recalled Mariannein 2023.

In January 2023, Emmanuel Pellerin, then deputy Renaissance of Hauts-de-Seine, set back from the party after recognizing having consumed cocaine, in the wake of an investigation of Mediapart. A situation that would have plunged Emmanuel Macron “In embarrassment”immediately titled Europe 1, one of the media belonging to Vincent Bolloré. However, the president’s name is never cited in this case.

Since their election to the presidency, the Macron couple has been the subject of numerous defamatory attacks. In addition to the consumption of drugs, the head of state is presented by conspiracy spheres as homosexual, and his wife, Brigitte Macron, as man born, under the name of Jean-Michel Togneux.