Emmanuel Macron was filmed downing a bottle of beer with Toulouse’s rugby gamers.
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French President Emmanuel Macron has created a brouhaha in France after being filmed downing a bottle of beer with Toulouse’s rugby gamers after they clinched the home league title on the weekend.
🔶Macron drank a bottle of beer in a single gulp after the victory of “Toulouse” within the French Rugby Championship pic.twitter.com/VLL9BQJB6j
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Video has emerged on French TV channels and on social media displaying the president being handed a bottle of Corona within the Toulouse altering room after the top of the sport on the Stade de France in Paris on Saturday, which Macron watched from the VIP enclosure.
After being urged to down it in a single, the 45-year-old drains the bottle in 17 seconds to cheers and whoops from the Toulouse teaching employees and gamers after their 29-26 victory over La Rochelle within the French Prime 14 remaining.
“Poisonous masculinity in political management in a single picture,” tweeted Sandrine Rousseau an MP for the Greens social gathering.
“A president who’s sharing within the pleasure of 23 gamers and participating of their traditions. That is all,” replied ruling social gathering MP Jean-Rene Cazeneuve.
Emmanuel Macron is a eager sports activities fan and is well-known for his locker-room visits to French sports activities groups.
In December, after Les Bleus misplaced the ultimate of the soccer World Cup in Qatar, the previous funding banker made an look within the workforce’s altering room to ship an emotional post-game pep speak.
Like most French presidents, he’s extra incessantly seen with wine in his hand, and he as soon as claimed he drank a glass at lunch and one other within the night.
He has additionally given fervent backing to France’s famed wine business, even blocking makes an attempt by public well being authorities to advertise the “Dry January” idea — turning the primary month of the 12 months into 4 weeks of alcohol abstinence.
“The president has a duty as a task mannequin when it comes to setting a wholesome instance for behaviour,” Bernard Basset from the charity Affiliation Addictions France advised the BFM channel on Monday.
“On this case, he is associating sport, events and the consumption of alcohol in a context of virile peer-pressure the place everybody drinks a bit an excessive amount of,” he added.
“It is inappropriate,” William Lowenstein, a physician and dependancy specialist, advised the identical channel. “You possibly can do it, however not in entrance of the cameras.”
The photographs may assist the rankings of a politician lengthy criticised as out-of-touch with atypical individuals, nevertheless.
His reputation slumped to a near-record low in March and April this 12 months as he pushed by means of a extremely unpopular hike within the retirement age and he was booed by sections of the group as he took to the pitch earlier than the sport on Saturday.
So low was his reputation that it was thought finest he shake palms with the gamers of the French soccer Cup remaining within the hall and never on the pitch.
Despite the fact that alcohol consumption has fallen in France within the final 50 years, round 49,000 deaths are brought on by the intoxicant every year and extreme consumption is “considered one of principal causes of hospital admissions”, in line with the well being ministry.
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