Outrage in France: Macron riding a jet ski during heat and forest fires

There is outrage in France over a photo report that shows President Emmanuel Macron riding a jet ski on vacation - while the country is suffering from heat and forest fires. Left-wing politicians in particular were outraged. France is experiencing an "apocalyptic summer" and "our president is treating himself to an advertising article about his vacation," criticized Green Party leader Marine Tondelier on Friday on the online service “It really worked,” he added sarcastically. In the photo-packed article about Macron's vacation at the presidential residence of Fort de Brégançon in southern France, readers learn that Macron also enjoys other water sports such as foil surfing. The president also jogs and boxes. At the same time, it is said that the president's vacation is "busy" and that an office has been set up in the residence. “The president spends his days on the phone.” The photographer is said to have not had permission Macron's entourage said that the photographer did not have permission for his report. "Secretly taken photos of the president have surfaced every year for nine years," it said. “This is politics the way I don’t like it,” communist MP Pierre Ouzoulias told radio station Europe 1. He would have preferred Macron “to have sat in a fire truck to help the firefighters put out the fire. That’s where he belonged,” Ouzoulias said.