Who is Damien T., the man who slapped Macron?<

According to Le Figaro, the two men are called Damien T.and Arthur C.And are from the town of Saint-Vallier.Sources close to the file confirmed their identity to the France Press agency.

Passionate about the Middle Ages

One of them, Damien t., who would have brought Emmanuel Macron, is a follower of European historical martial arts, a discipline that has around 1,500 practitioners in France and promotes combat forms that have been forgotten in Europe, according to an Instragram profileName where he appears in medieval costume.Le Figaro adds that he is also a kendo practitioner, a Japanese martial art using saber.

As our colleagues from Liberation report, who studied the social networks of the young man, it also seems that he is inquiring via important players in the fachosphere, without appearing as an activist.Beyond the reactionary weekly current values, Libé has thus identified subscriptions to the extreme right “papacito” youtubeur, or to accounts close to the RN and the old group generation identity, such as the “feminists” ofNemesis, the supremacist rapper Kroc white and the students' identity students.

The second arrested -who accompanied Damien T.- is part of a district council of the town of Saint-Vallier, according to the website of the town hall, and both belong to an association of games of medieval inspiration.

According to information from Figaro, the two men are, moreover, close to the yellow vests movement.A rally in which they participated took place in Valence this Tuesday on the sidelines of the displacement of Emmanuelmacron, comprising according to the daily life of ultra-left activists, farmers and therefore yellow vests, who wanted to be heard of the chief of the'State.After being pushed by the police to the neighboring town of Tain-l'Hermitage, it was there that they were confronted with Emmanuel Macron and that the slap would have taken place.