Macron’s figure stolen from Paris waxwork museum

President Emmanuel Macron's wax figure was stolen yesterday from a Paris waxwork museum by several people claiming to be Greenpeace environmental activists, a police source told AFP.

According to the source, two women and a man entered the Grevin Museum in central Paris posing as tourists, and left the museum through an emergency exit.

Last week, with a wave of his hand, Macron has taken a different tack to diffuse the controversy over his wife appearing to hit him, this time by making light of it, reports Independent.

On Monday, cameras caught the moment Brigitte Macron pushed her husband in the face as their plane arrived in Hanoi, Vietnam, for the start of their southeast Asian tour. The French leader, who was standing in the doorway of the plane, looked momentarily stunned after the then-unidentified hand hit him in the face.

But after playing down headlines of the pair appearing to have been caught in the middle of a heated argument, the French president on Tuesday instead made fun of it.