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sport j2 money culture scene video subscription 'LEBANON IS NOT ALONE' French President Macron arrived in Beirut, an indignant crowd shouting: 'Revolution!' Macron said Lebanon would continue to sink into crisis if urgent reforms are not implemented Writes: Karla JuničićPosted: August 06, 2020 5:18 pm Macron visiting the shattered silos in the harbor Macron visiting the shattered silos in the harbor Thibault Camus / AFP Facebook Twitter Messenger E-mail RELATED NEWS Scenes from Beirut DISASTER IN BEIRUT The action started in Lebanon, the authorities detained everyone connected with the explosion. A Russian businessman is also in the game A COUNTRY IN CHAOS Lebanon: The people are furious, the political consequences of the explosions in Beirut are possible French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Beirut on Thursday to provide support to the devastated city and Lebanon after a terrible explosion on Tuesday destroyed much of the buildings and caused grief and anger. "Lebanon is not alone," Macron wrote before leaving Paris, vowing to co-ordinate international relief efforts after at least 137 people were killed and 5,000 wounded in the blast. The damage is estimated at billions of dollars, with more than 300,000 homes destroyed. - I would like to help organize international aid - he said, noting that "behind the explosion is a serious crisis." Macron mobbed in Beirut. Down with the regime, locals chanted, and called for Revolution while declaiming Lebanon's President Aoun. pic.twitter.com/4ntkZToUFj - Quentin Sommerville (@sommervilletv) August 6, 2020 Macron also warned that Lebanon, already in deep economic crisis, desperate for salvation and torn by political turmoil, would "continue to sink" unless urgent reforms are implemented. Macron first visited the hardest-hit area and neighborhoods around the port. The neighborhoods of Mar Mikhael and Gemmayzh are now full of shattered shards of buildings and glass that residents and volunteers are trying to clean up. At the same time, numerous missing persons are still being searched for. image Emmanuel Macron hugs a resident of the hard-hit Gemmayzeh district AFP As he passed the neighborhoods, an angry mob expressed their displeasure, shouting at Lebanese political leaders: "Revolution" and "The people want to overthrow the regime" - slogans used during mass protests against the government last year. Macron said that he was not there to support the "regime" and promised that French aid would not fall into the "hands of corruption". image Lebanese President Michel Aoun welcomed his French counterpart in Beirut AFP / AFP - This visit is an opportunity for an honest dialogue with Lebanese political forces and institutions. I will talk to all political forces to ask them for a new pact. I am here today to propose a new political pact to them, ”he said as he greeted the crowds. Macron's visit is the first visit by a head of state since the explosion. Two days after the tragedy, Lebanon is still in shock. The colonel leading the rescue team told Macron as he inspected the site that rescue forces were looking for seven or eight more people who could be "stuck in the control room of the port buried in the blast." image Large masses are protesting as the president passes through the city Anwar Amro / AFP Macron will head to the presidential palace later this afternoon for a meeting with all political actors, including Prime Minister Hassan Diab . Everyone hopes this visit will be more successful than the trip of French Foreign Minister Jean-Yve Le Drian . Le Drian despised Lebanon's political elite last month and said it was too "passive" in the context of the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Following the visit, Foreign Minister Nassif Hitti resigned in protest of the government's lack of crisis management. image The French president visits the port Thibault Camus / AFP France has always been close to Lebanon, but tensions have risen recently. Many Lebanese have protested in recent months because they thought international aid money would go to "the hands of people who will not spend it on things that people actually need," Beirut correspondent Leila Molana-Allen told FRANCE24. At least 21 French citizens were injured in the tragedy in Beirut. Two French planes arrived in Lebanon on Thursday with special personnel and rescue equipment.