Photos of French President Emmanuel Macron hitting a boxing bag have caused amusement, bemusement and consternation in the country.
Posted to Instagram by his official photographer Soazig de la Moissonnière, the black and white images show Macron working out in a tight-fitting dark T-shirt and gloves. One image shows the president gritting his teeth as his right hand connects with the bag, and in the other he wears a look of intense concentration between punches. Commentators have linked the images to Macron’s increasingly tougher stance against Moscow.
He puts out photos like Putin would and other political leaders who basically want to take a bit of a macho approach of politics,” said Yannick Jadot, a senator for the Europe Ecologie Les Verts party, in an interview with TV channel France 2. Jadot criticized Macron for his lack of action in ending the conflict in Gaza, which he said was “carnage.” Sandrine Rousseau, a member of parliament for EELV, called out the president for the macho image portrayed in the photos.
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