Slap to Macron puts focus on ultra-right groups

In this grab taken from video France's President Emmanuel Macron, centre, is slapped by a man, in green T-shirt, during a visit to Tain-l’Hermitage, in France, Tuesday, June 8, 2021. Macron denounced “violence” and “stupidity” after he was slapped in the face Tuesday by a man during a visit to a small town in southeastern France. The incident prompted a wide show of support for the head of state from politicians across the ideological spectrum. A video shows a man slapping Macron in the face and the president's bodyguards pushing the aggressor away as the head of state was quickly rushed from the scene in the town of Tain-l’Hermitage. (BFM TV via AP)

French President Emmanuel Macron chairs the weekly Cabinet meeting at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris, Wednesday June 9, 2021. Bubbling beneath France’s political landscape is an assortment of ultra-right groups, a subculture that shot to the nation’s attention when a young man slapped Macron and blurted out a centuries-old royalist cry. (Ludovic Marin/Pool Photo via AP)

FILE - In this May 1, 2021, file photo, French far-right leader Marine le Pen, center, talks to media after laying a wreath during a ceremony in Paris. Bubbling beneath France’s political landscape is an assortment of ultra-right groups, a subculture that shot to the nation’s attention when a young man slapped President Emmanuel Macron and blurted out a centuries-old royalist cry. Le Pen was among political chiefs to quickly condemn the assault. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)