New Delhi, May 26 -- A dramatic video showing French President Emmanuel Macron being pushed by first lady Brigitte Macron with both her hands on his face just before they disembarked from their plane to start a tour of Southeast Asia has caused quite a stir.

President Emmanuel Macron dismissed the gesture, saying they were just "horsing around".

Emmanuel Macron later told reporters that the couple - married since 2007 after meeting at the high school where he was a student and she was a teacher - were simply joking around.

"We are horsing around and, really, joking with my wife," he said, adding that the incident was being overblown: "It becomes a sort of geo-planetary catastrophe."

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