EMMANUEL MACRON’S first term was damaged by the farcically violent behaviour of his chum Alexandre Benalla, a security lout. A minor matter eventually, it did not resound outside the hexagon. The president’s second quinquennat is already facing a much graver, potentially international problem which may come to define it.
In a hasty evidence-free improvisation on Twitter the interior minister, Macron’s chum, Gérald Darmanin, a shifty sort currently not facing a single rape charge, blamed the chaos at the European Cup Final on 28
