FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON AND HIS DOG NEMO, WAITING ON ELYSEE PALACE STEPS / MACRON MEETING WITH HIS JUNIOR MINISTERS AS NEMO PROCEEDS TO URINATE ON FIREPLACE / STILL HPTOGRAPHS OF NEMO WITH MACRON AND MACRON’S WIFE, BRIGITTE
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PARIS, FRANCE (FILE – AUGUST 28, 2017) (REUTERS FOR AGENCY POOL – ACCESS ALL)
1. VARIOUS OF FRENCH PRESIDENT, EMMANUEL MACRON, WALKING OUT OF ELYSEE PALACE ONTO STEPS AND WAITING WITH HIS THEN-NEWLY ADOPTED LABRADOR, NEMO
PARIS, FRANCE (OCTOBER 18, 2017) (LCI – NO ACCESS FRANCE / NO RE-USE AFTER OCTOBER 24, 2017 AT 1900GMT)
2. MACRON MEETING IN HIS OFFICE WITH JUNIOR MINISTERS (FROM LEFT) BRUNE POIRSON, JULIEN DENORMANDIE AND BENJAMIN GRIVEAUX AS NEMO MOVES ABOUT THE ROOM / NEMO URINATING ON FIREPLACE / MACRON AND MINISTERS LAUGHING
3. MACRON LAUGHING
4. (SOUNDBITE) (French) JUNIOR MINISTER FOR TERRITORIAL COHESION, JULIEN DENORMANDIE, SAYING:
“Does that happen often?”
(SOUNDBITE) (French) FRENCH PRESIDENT, EMMANUEL MACRON, SAYING:
“You’ve triggered completely unsual behavior in my dog. Well done old chap, well done.”
(SOUNDBITE) (French) JUNIOR MINISTER FOR TERRITORIAL COHESION, JULIEN DENORMANDIE, SAYING:
“Who’s this dog’s master?”
(SOUNDBITE) (French) FRENCH PRESIDENT, EMMANUEL MACRON, SAYING:
“Me, but he’s never done that though.”
PARIS, FRANCE (FILE – AUGUST 30, 2017) (REUTERS PICTURES – ACCESS ALL)
5. MACRON GESTURING TO HIS DOG
PARIS, FRANCE (FILE – AUGUST 28, 2017) (REUTERS PICTURES – ACCESS ALL)
6. NEMO
PARIS, FRANCE (FILE – SEPTEMBER 27, 2017) (REUTERS PICTURES – ACCESS ALL)
7. MACRON WITH HIS WIFE BRIGITTE AND NEMO
STORY: French President Emmanuel Macron’s dog Nemo was filmed urinating on a fireplace at the Elysee Palace during a meeting with three junior ministers on Wednesday last week (October 18).
Macron and his ministers laughed off the incident, which took place in the president’s office.
Nemo, a cross between a black labrador and a griffon, was adopted in August by Macron and his wife Brigitte from a French animal welfare organisation named SPA (Animal Protection Society). He is said to be about one or two years old.
The dog was named after Captain Nemo in “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea”, a famous book written by Jules Verne and of which Macron is a fan.
Previous presidents Francois Hollande, Jacques Chirac, Francois Mitterand and Charles de Gaulle also had a ‘presidential dog’.
