Did France's Macron Ask Those Refusing Vaccine To Stay Home? A Fact-Check

The caption of the Instagram post was the view of the journalist and not of Emmanuel Macron - the wrong translation is supposedly the reason behind the hoax.

A tweet went viral on social media claiming French President Emmanuel Macron has asked those who refused the Covid vaccine to stay at home. A quick fact-check however reveals this is fake news. There's a fake Macron quote doing the rounds about how he won't sacrifice "the adolescence of my daughters" for the unvaccinated and "this time you are staying at home, not us". Aside from anything else, he doesn't have adolescent daughters (or any daughters). You know why I was suspicious of that thread? Despite having been retweeted thousands of times (including by at least one journalist who should know better), it was from an obscure account and didn't contain any details of its source. https://t.co/RpOtc6EZ8L Apologies - I retweeted a thread earlier, containing translated quotes from President Macron on vaccinations which turned out to be mistaken/mistranslated. I should have done due diligence and I'm annoyed at myself.I blame waking up too early today (!) & not speaking French. Journalist Selvaggia Lucarelli shared an Instagram post featuring a photo of Macron and a long caption in Italian. Almost a week later, a quote from the post was widely shared on Twitter; the first account to tweet was an unverified one. The tweet has since been removed and the account suspended. "I no longer have any intention of sacrificing my life, my time, my freedom and the adolescence of my daughters, as well as their right to study properly, for those who refuse to be vaccinated," reads the translated quote, which was lifted off the Italian journalist's post.