The video was released by an organization that, according to the daily Libération, has links to the far right. "He could not have known at that time the background of each person with whom he spoke," insisted the same group.
"Do you want to come with us to sing?" one of the people asks. "Come on, make me a verse of the Refuge," replies the president, who had already sung it during a trip to the Hautes-Pyrénées in 2022.