A former French presidential candidate and former member of France’s National Assembly is claiming that President Emmanuel Macron, who stated in January that he “really [wanted] to piss off” the unvaccinated people of the nation, is not, himself, vaccinated against Covid-19. Jean Lassalle of France’s Resistance Party made the remarks in an interview with broadcaster NTD.
Lassalle also claimed that “most” members of the French government were also unvaccinated.
Lassalle, who ran for the presidency in 2017 as well as this year, previously served in the National Assembly for the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department from 2002 until this year. He chose not to defend the seat this year.
He claims he experienced serious health problems possibly associated with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Lassalle explained why he took the jab: “Because I was an MP and I didn’t want to give the feeling that I wasn’t doing my job. But I did not know that Emmanuel Macron was not vaccinated.”
“I did not know that most of the government members were not, and I did not know that many of my fellow MPs were not either. I wanted to set an example,” he continued.
Lasalle blamed Macron and former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson for strongly suggesting — some might say pressuring — everyone to take the experimental shots.
“This was the time when Mr. Macron, Boris Johnson and all the others … encouraged everyone to get vaccinated,” Lasalle pointed out.
The French politician discussed his serious health struggles that he believes are associated with the vaccine.
“I got the Johnson vaccine that almost killed me, that warped my heart. I have had four surgeries since January 3rd of this year,” Lassalle said. “And then there, it is in the Ambroise Paré clinic that the surgeon who trained with another one in the besides, succeeded in putting my auricles in place, except to make them function normally. Otherwise, I would certainly be dead.”
In the United States, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine (also known as the Janssen vaccine, as Janssen is a European subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson) was severely restricted due to an ongoing risk of what the Food and Drug Administration called “rare and potentially life-threatening blood clots in combination with low levels of blood platelets with onset of symptoms approximately one to two weeks following administration of the … vaccine.”
The restrictions, which were enacted in May of 2022, limited the vaccine accessibility to those 18 years old and older.
“I got sick and I said so during the election campaign, nobody listened and they wanted to silence me,” Lasalle opined.
Recall that in January, Macron vowed to make life nearly impossible for French citizens who refused to take the under-tested vaccines. In discussing how to reach the minority of the French population who hadn’t been vaccinated, Macron was both crude and very clear.
“How do we reduce that minority? We reduce it, sorry for the expression, by pissing them off even more,” Macron said.
Macron promised that he wouldn’t “send [unvaccinated people] to prison,” but he would try to make the unvaccinated’s life as miserable as possible by “limiting as much as possible their access to activities in social life.”
“I’m not for pissing off the French,” Macron said. “Now the unvaccinated, I really want to piss them off. And so, we’re going to keep doing it, until the end. This is the strategy.”
“So we need to let [the unvaccinated] know: From January 15 you will no longer be able to go to a restaurant, you won’t be able to get a drink or a coffee or go to the theater or the cinema,” Macron concluded.
After gaining reelection in April, Macron lost a key vaccine passport battle in July when the National Assembly defeated a Macron-backed vaccine passport mandate for minors, international, and domestic travelers.
Lasalle’s claims — true or not — have sparked calls for a parliamentary investigation into whether Macron and his government officials have, indeed, been vaccinated.
Macron and his cronies had better hope they can prove they were vaccinated. Otherwise, given how he has treated the citizenry throughout the pandemic, what happened to King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette could be tame compared to what might happen to him.
