French President Emmanuel Macron has created a brouhaha in France after being filmed downing a bottle of beer with Toulouse’s rugby players after they clinched the domestic league title at the weekend.
Video has emerged on French TV channels and online showing the president being handed abottle of Corona in the Toulouse changing room after the end of the game at the Stade de France in Paris on Saturday, which Macron watched from the VIP enclosure.
After being urged to down it in one, the 45-year-old drains the bottle in 17 seconds to cheers from the team. “Toxic masculinity in political leadership in one image,” tweeted Sandrine Rousseau an MP for the Greens party.
Video has emerged on French TV channels and online showing the president being handed abottle of Corona in the Toulouse changing room after the end of the game at the Stade de France in Paris on Saturday, which Macron watched from the VIP enclosure.
After being urged to down it in one, the 45-year-old drains the bottle in 17 seconds to cheers from the team. “Toxic masculinity in political leadership in one image,” tweeted Sandrine Rousseau an MP for the Greens party.
“A president who is sharing in the joy of players. That’s all,”replied ruling party MP JeanRene Cazeneuve. “The president has a responsibility as a role model in terms healthy example for behaviour,” Bernard Basset from the charity Association Addictions said.