In an interview with Le Parisien Tuesday, Macron used salty language to express his zero-tolerance for people who don’t get their Covid-19 shot and stressed that his government will continue to step up pressure against as a way to contain skyrocketing daily new infections.

“You can get upset about ways of talking which may sound colloquial, for which I take full responsibility. But what upsets me is the situation in which we are,” Macron said at a news conference in Paris on Friday. “It was my responsibility to ring the alarm. That’s what I did this week so that things will move faster.”