France has launched an investigation into public insults and "provocation to rebellion" after posters caricaturing President Emmanuel Macron as Adolf Hitler were found on dozens of billboards in the southern city of Avignon.
Some 30 posters were this week put up on the 120 advertising boards in Avignon. They show the head of state wearing a suit, with greying hair and the numbers "49.3" imprinted as a moustache.
