EMMANUEL MACRON

French President condemns anti-Semitic abuse by ‘yellow vest’ protestors 1 Macron was angered by the attack on a leading intellectual by protestors. Police intervened to protect writer Alain Finkielkraut after he was targeted in Paris on Saturday

2 “The anti-Semitic insults he (Finkielkraut) has been subjected to are the absolute negation of what we are and what makes us a great nation. We will not tolerate it,” Macron tweeted

3 Several protestors shouted “Dirty Zionist,” “We are the people” and “France is ours”, according to a video broadcast. “I felt absolute hatred and this is not the first time,” Finkielkraut recounted.