French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday welcomed Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman to talks at the Elysee Palace in Paris with a long handshake, despite outrage from rights groups over their meeting. Macron warmly greeted the kingdom’s de-facto ruler ahead of a dinner, AFP TV pictures showed, defying objections from activists the talks are deeply inappropriate less than four years after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. VIDEO: French President Macron welcomes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the Elysee Palace. A Macron aide defended…