"The unvaccinated, I really want to p*** them off. And so, we're going to continue doing so, until the end. That's the strategy", Macron said in an interview with the newspaper Le Parisien late on Tuesday.
"So we need to tell them, from 15 January, you won't be able to go to the restaurant anymore, you won't be able to down one, won't be able to have a coffee, go to the theatre, the cinema", the French president said.
The remarks followed the French president in late July admonishing individuals for shunning vaccination, adding: "What is your freedom worth if you tell me that you do not want to get vaccinated? If tomorrow you will infect your father, your mother, or myself, I am the victim of your freedom. It is not freedom, it is called irresponsibility, egoism".