Emmanuel Macron Told Bereaved Parents to “Stop Dwelling on Their Stabbed Children and Focus on Saving the Planet”! By James Reed
The Emmanuel Macron school of trauma psychology advices bereaved parents, whose children have been stabbed to death by the great diverse, to stop mourning and get to work dealing with climate change, like a good robot Leftist would think. Unless of course, it is their family who gets killed!
The claim that Emmanuel Macron told bereaved parents to "stop dwelling on their stabbed children and focus on saving the planet" stems from a July 15, 2025, article by The Daily Sceptic, which suggests Macron made such remarks in the context of rising violent crime in France, particularly involving minors. The article implies his comments were a response to incidents like the June 2025 stabbing in Nogent, where a 14-year-old killed a school employee, and other high-profile attacks, most involving Muslim perpetrators. The author, Steven Tucker, speculates Macron's focus on climate change over public safety could be an attempt to deflect from politically sensitive issues around immigration and crime.
If true, this statement reflects a profound moral disconnect. Valuing abstract, long-term goals like climate change over immediate human suffering, especially the loss of children to violence, suggests a failure to grapple with the visceral reality of grief and injustice. Parents who lose children to such acts are not merely "dwelling" but confronting an existential wound. Dismissing their pain as secondary to global issues like mythical rising sea levels risks alienating the very people a leader should protect and represent. It raises questions about Macron's empathy and political priorities, especially when public opinion, as shown in a 2025 Elabe poll, indicates 87% of French citizens see rising violence among minors as a real issue, with only 21% trusting Macron to address it effectively.
The Daily Sceptic article is behind a pay wall, and internet searches did not reveal the direct source of the quote, at least in English. The article doesn't provide a direct quote or specific context for Macron's alleged statement, relying instead on interpretation. Without primary sources like a speech transcript or video, it's possible the remark was exaggerated or misconstrued. Macron has previously addressed violent incidents, such as the 2023 Annecy playground stabbings, with apparent sensitivity, visiting victims and calling the attack an "act of absolute cowardice." His focus on climate change, as seen in his comments before the UN Ocean Conference in Nice, aligns with his globalist agenda, but it's unclear if he explicitly linked this to dismissing parental grief.Overall, though, I would not put it past him.
From an ethics first-principles perspective, the moral calculus here is stark: human life, especially that of children, is the foundation of any society worth saving. A leader who appears to sideline such loss for ideological goals, whether climate change or political expediency, undermines the social contract. If the planet is saved but its people live in fear or mourning, what's the point?
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