Loading ...French Police Foil Plot To Assassinate Macron
Emmanuel Macron has been in office for barely two months, and already some are out for his blood. As CNN reports, a man has been charged with plotting to assassinate French President Emmanuel Macron on Bastille Day during a visit by US President Donald Trump. Investigators said the man planned to attack Macron on July 14, during a parade on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, where Trump is set to be a guest of honor.
News of the alleged plot surfaced a week after Macron invited Trump for the Bastille Day visit. That invitation was extended during a phone conversation between the two leaders about combating ISIS. The two leaders are also both expected to attend this weekend’s G-20 summit in Hamburg.
According to CNN, the plotter, who is now in police custody, is a 23-year-old “far-right nationalist who told police that he wanted to make a political statement by killing Macron.” The plotter also told police that he wanted to kill blacks, Arabs, Jews and homosexuals. In other words, a perfect scapegoat to extend the French emergency law just a little longer.