Macron declares his Covid strategy is to ‘piss off’ the unvaccinated

French president stokes divisions as parliament debates tighter requirements for mandatory health pass

Emmanuel Macron has prompted a furore after saying that his government's vaccination strategy is to piss off" people who have not had coronavirus jabs by continuing to make daily life more and more difficult for them.

I am not about pissing off the French people," the president said in an interview with readers of Le Parisien daily on Tuesday. But as for the non-vaccinated, I really want to piss them off. And we will continue to do this, to the end. This is the strategy."