During a visit to southeast France on Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron was slapped in the face by a man in the crowd, according to the video posted on social media.
Macron was seen walking up to a metal fence in the village of Tain-l’Hermitage, in the Drôme region of France, clasping the arm of a man in the crowd as he began to greet onlookers, according to footage shared by CNN affiliate BFM.
The man slapped Macron across the left cheek while yelling for the end of “Macronie,” a derogatory term for Macron’s presidency used in the French press.
Two 28-year-old men, including the man who slapped Macron and another accompanying him, were placed in police custody at 1.45 p.m.