Late to this thread, but this is disturbingly similar to the media-bashing a French-Palestinian politician has received recently.
She tweeted something along the lines of "time for an uprising" before attending a conference. The following week+ of interviews with her party colleagues were filled with "did you know uprising in Arabic is intifada?! Why is your colleague calling for violence?!?!?!"
Her name is Rima Hassan if you're interested.
It's good that the head of state says so publicly. I won't exactly hold my breath for anything beyond this acknowledgement to happen, sadly.
We're coming up on the 1-year anniversary of Macron dissolving the French Parliament, which is when he will be legally allowed to dissolve it again. The last time he hoped to bolster his party by capitalizing on the country's reactance to the far-right surge in the (then-) recent European Parliament elections, but the left got their shit together and managed to form a coalition that arrived ahead of both the far-right and macron's party. This time around he seems to be courting the moderate left a lot harder: a few weeks ago he announced that France could formally recognize a Palestinian State later this summer, last week he courted American Scientists fleeing the Trump Administration, and now this.
It stinks of opportunism, and I don't trust him as far as I can throw him. Still, this is better than him not saying anything. It is a disgrace that France made Haiti trade their freedom on the basis of compensating for the market price of the former slaves, and has (to my knowledge) never given back a cent.