At the end of the 2024 Summer Olympics, reports appeared on the Internet that the French President was booed by the public at a gala event in honor of the end of the competition. The video confirmed this. We have verified the authenticity of the viral recording.
On the night of August 11-12, 2024 at the Stade de France passed Closing ceremony of the Summer Olympic Games in Paris. Already at 00:37 Moscow time, blogger Anatoly Shariy shared on his Telegram channel (1.1 million views at the time of writing this analysis) a 20-second video showing how French President Emmanuel Macron approaches the podium and tries to make a speech to the dissatisfied screams of the crowd. The caption reads: "Good ending." 14 minutes later Telegram channel Mash published a similar 33-second video with the logo of the TF1 TV channel. “Macron came out. The crowd booed him. Perhaps they also expected him to do something artistic, like swimming along the Seine or juggling snails. But he came without tricks,” the post said. In another 15 minutes publication changed: mention of Macron and video of his participation from the recording gone missing.
Both versions of the video, including those with links to Mash and Shariya, went viral on the RuNet. For example, the video was published by Telegram channels Voblya (210,000 views), "Sheikh Tamir"(99,000, post deleted), "Mislivets Egor"(95,000), "Talipov 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞"(73,000), "Notepad Russia 18+"(71,000), "Informant"(51,000), etc. Booing the French president on their social networks mentioned and TV channelConstantinople" Notes about this were also published on the websites of publications “Arguments and facts", "Moskovsky Komsomolets", "Championship", "Express newspaper", sport24.ru, RIAMO, "National News Service", "Soviet sport", "Moscow region today" And "Evening Moscow"
On ceremonies closing of the 2024 Summer Olympics, the stadium did not have the same decorations as shown in the viral video. Moreover, the French president did not make such a speech at the event.
If you carefully examine the podium behind which Macron gave his speech in the video, you will notice that it depicts the emblem championship Rugby World 2023. The name of this tournament is also visible under the logo.
The viral video, which spread in August 2024, is a fragment of the broadcast of the opening ceremony of the Rugby World Cup, held from September 8 to October 28, 2023 in France. Record available on the World Rugby YouTube channel. The viral excerpt begins at the timestamp 25:10, and you can really hear the dissatisfied roar of the audience there.
Speech to the President of France spoke World Rugby chief Bill Beaumont stood nearby and applauded. When Macron took the floor, the crowd began to boo and whistle loudly. According to reports Media, the audience applauded in unison only at the end of the speech, when the president declared the championship open.
In 2023, many authoritative publications wrote about Macron’s not-so-warm reception at the Stade de France. Thus, the Associated Press explained fans' dissatisfaction with the unpopular pension reform promoted by the French president. Because of this initiative throughout the country passed protests by thousands.
Thus, the viral video of the French President being booed during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Olympics was actually filmed a year earlier at the opening of the Rugby World Cup.
Cover photo: screenshot from video @worldrugby (YouTube)
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