after the riots, Emmanuel Macron expected on the Tour de France

Emmanuel Macron is back in the field on Thursday July 6, after a week of near-paralysis of the executive, focused on managing the urban violence that followed Nahel’s death. In the morning, the president will take the direction of the Pyrenees to go to the 6th stage of the Tour de France, between Tarbes and Cauterets-Cambasque. With this trip, Emmanuel Macron wants to try to turn the page on this sequence of riots.

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The Head of State will, as in previous years, travel the roads in the car of the director of the Tour before congratulating the yellow jersey. Emmanuel Macron did not want to sacrifice this meeting he loves, which is more in the department of his grandmother.

“Not an overly festive character”

For the Elysée, there is no problem in terms of image. “The peak of violence seems to have passed”, said a relative, using the expression of Emmanuel Macron. Another thinks that“the president had to resume his agenda” after the cancellation of his visit to Germany and a sequence on ecology. Moreover, the Tour is presented as “a major event of sporting and cultural heritage”. A close friend of the president advises him all the same to “keep a low profile, so that it doesn’t look too festive”.

To balance the day, the Elysée has planned another stop in the morning: the president will take the direction of Pau to discuss with François Bayrou and in a second time, with other elected officials from the agglomeration. It will then be a question of the riots, but in “extension“of what was done on Tuesday July 4 at the Elysée Palace and when Emmanuel Macron asked his government”to conduct (an) in-depth work“with a view to”concrete decisions“Despite everything, Béarn has been very little affected by the violence of the last few days.