Marine Tondelier apologizes after ambiguous remarks on the socialist deputy Jérôme Guedj and believes that there’s an excessive left anti -Semitism | EUROtoday

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Marine Tondelier, during the demonstration of the May 1 in Dunkirk (North).

The National Secretary of Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, has “E apology” apologized “ On X, Friday May 2, after having made the day before ambiguous remarks on the socialist Jérôme Guedj, taken to task, like other socialists, in the Parisian demonstration of 1er-Mai, and she recognized that he “Exist[ait] excessive left anti -Semitism ”.

Socialist activists, together with deputy Jérôme Guedj, already invective on Sunday throughout a rally in opposition to Islamophobia, have been insulted on Thursday, and for some attacked. “Jérôme Guedj himself was again the target of anti-Semitic insults”assured the primary secretary of the Socialist Federation of Paris, Lamia El Aaraje.

Questioned Thursday night on RTL as as to whether the seize of Jérôme Guedj, of Jewish confession, was an excessive left anti -Semitism, Marine Tondelier had declared: “I don’t want to answer this question. »» “I am bothered”had she continued, “Because no one should be ousted from the demonstrations, but I also see how Jérôme Guedj meets, comes with twenty journalists”suggesting that the deputy had a little provocative behavior.

Words on which she returned on Friday. “Jérôme Guedj, like all socialists and demonstrators, must be able to do so [manifester] in serenity. I tried to call him this morning and I will do it again in the morning “she wrote on X. “As for whether there is extreme left anti -Semitism, the answer is yes. As in the whole of society elsewhere. I have already had the opportunity to express myself several times on the subject, and maintain that it must be fought everywhere and all the time ”she added.

“I was surprised by the way in which the question was asked yesterday, making a link between two events on which I did not have all the information, having manifested myself in Dunkirkexplained Marine Tondelier. I apologize [à] All those that the imprecision of my response could hit ”she concluded.

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