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Hyderabad: Internet users accused French President Emmanuel Macron of selective “freedom of speech” and hypocrisy after suing billboard owner Michelangelo Flore, who described Macron as Adolf Hitler in protest against COVID-19 restrictions.
Critics pointed out that Macron, who defended Charlie Hebdo cartoons insulting the Prophet Muhammad as free speech, sued Michel Ange Flori, the owner of a French street advertising business, as he published a photo showing President Emmanuel Macron disguised as Adolf Hitler and declaring that it was “an exercise in political satire”.
According to TRT World, personal lawyers for Macron and his party have now filed legal complaints alleging the performances were a public insult. Flori said he was contacted by police who were acting on the complaint.
A Net surfer Munir A Hussein posted an old video of Emmanuel Macron in which we see him say: “I will always defend in my country the freedom to speak, to write, to think, to draw.
Critics said it was a test for Macron after supporting Charlie Hebdo and clearly failed and displayed his hypocrisy. Previously, the French state had defended the right of Charlie Hebdo to publish cartoons insulting the Prophet Muhammad.
October 21st, last year, Macron said: “We will not give up cartoons and drawings, even if others back down,” speaking in honor of school teacher Samuel Paty, who was killed by a Chechen teenager who wanted to avenge Paty’s use of blasphemous cartoons in a free speech class.
Another internet user, Daniel Haqiqaqtjou mocked Macron, saying: “Poor little Macron, can’t even take a joke.”
According to media sources, Flori set up the Macron notice boards in response to a law passed by the French parliament this month banning people in certain public places from not being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or from being able to test negative again.
Opposition to Macron, accusing him of acting like a dictator, says the rules trample on civil liberties. In its defense, the administration argues that it must encourage higher vaccination rates.
Flori in an interview with Reuters said the consensus in his country was on Charlie Hebdo’s side, however, mimicking his critics, he added, “when it comes to mocking the president by portraying him as a dictator, then it becomes blasphemy, so it is unacceptable.
Jean Ennochi, a lawyer for Macron said that the legal complaint was filed for Macron in a personal capacity because of the offensive nature of the comparison of the “President of the Republic with Adolf Hitler”.
According to TRT World, a representative of Macron’s party said he filed a separate complaint for insult and incitement to hatred.
” I was not expecting that at all. That the president would file a complaint against a French citizen, â€said Flori. “I caricature,†he remarked and added that people may like it or not, but that’s all the same, the caricature will remain caricature.
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