On Wednesday French President Emmanuel Macron toured Jerusalem's Old City with a police escort as he attended the Fifth World Holocaust Forum in Israel. He especially wanted to visit the Church of St Anne, just like some of his predecessors, given it's specially designated as French sovereign territory since being gifted by the Ottoman Empire to France in 1856.

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"Go outside," French President Emmanuel Macron demanded in English in a melee with Israeli security men on Wednesday, demanding they leave a Jerusalem basilica that he visited before a Holocaust memorial conference.

According to Wikipedia, “In 1856, in gratitude for French support during the Crimean War, the Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid I presented [the Church of St Anne] to Napoleon III. It was subsequently restored, but the majority of what remains today is original. The French government claims St. Anne belongs to the French government.”

French President Emmanuel Macron gets testy with Israeli police in the church of Sainte Anne, Old City of Jerusalem. pic.twitter.com/14NjxLPvLA — Noga Tarnopolsky (@NTarnopolsky) January 22, 2020