French President Emmanuel Macron looked visibly surprised as he was booed by the crowd taking the pitch of France’s national stadium for the Rugby World Cup opening ceremony on Friday.

In one of his first major public appearances since France was plagued with riots following the Government’s controversial pension reforms and the racially charged riots over a police shooting of an Algerian heritage teenager, Macron was faced with the harsh reality of what the French people really thought of him.

There were many French celebrities at the event who were embraced by the crowd, but this wasn’t the case for Macron.