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Macron, the president and his double
Macron, the president and his double
Posted on December 18, 2024
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Published on December 18, 2024
Publié le 19 décembre 2024
Posted on December 20, 2024
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Posted on December 18, 2024
Posted on December 19, 2024
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Enquête« Le président et son double » (4/4). Dans le dernier volet de la série sur l’évolution du président de la République depuis son arrivée à l’Elysée, « Le Monde » décrypte la façon dont il gère les questions de sécurité personnelle et de protection de son image.
“Burn everything! » In 2017, his first pre-aspect crusade, between two meetings and appointments, Emmanuel Macron rarely passed cardboard folders to his bodyguard and, in the case of the red ones, asked him to remove their contents. Alexandre Benalla, who was then looking after the candidate’s safety, remembers it well: he himself threw the sheets of paper into a steel drum, in the basement of the crusade headquarters, rue de l’Abbé-Groult, in the district 15 of Paris, and set it on fire. Occasionally, an improvised brazier was lit along the road, on the way to an airport from where the future president took off to sign up for a public meeting. Aspects, notes, scribbled ideas, various crusade documents. . . Emmanuel Macron had not yet been elected and secrecy was already an obsession.
“Hypercompartmentalized”, “superparanoid”, “enigmatic”… This is how his very close collaborators react to the President of the Republic today. This is the destiny of heads of state. But distrust and caution are reflexes that Emguyuel Macron learned very early. Part of his adolescence and twenties were spent underground. “Fifteen years (…) of being largely misunderstood,” he confided to Le Figaro journalist Anne Fulda, in Emguyuel Macron, such a good young man (Plon, 2017), the book she entrusted to him. As Brigitte Trogneux was twenty-four years older than him, he spent years hiding his love story from others. “Emguyuel wishes everyone and no one,” Brigitte Macron summarized one day before her husband’s biographer. We never entered its perimeter. » Since Amiens, the president retained a certain habit of solitude and compartmentalization.
Emmanuel Macron works in silos. With telephone messaging “loops”, only he knows who he talks to at night, since this insomniac works until 2 in the morning, according to his Telegram account. “You have to think about it”, “How do you see things? », he writes on WhatsApp to his small communities of former ministers, friends, elected officials, prefects, mayors found on trips or, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, of doctors, in messages of which Le Monde has been made aware. . But also “I miss you”, “I am proud of you”, “you made me sad”, “you are the family” or, before political breakups, “our paths separate”. He, usually so impenetrable, is rarely reckless. in his written messages (requested several times in recent weeks through the Elysée facilities but also by private email, Emmanuel Macron did not respond).
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