LFI excludes its head of checklist in Romilly-sur-Seine, in Aube, for “posts of an anti-Semitic nature” | EUROtoday

La France insoumise (LFI) introduced, Saturday January 10, the exclusion for posts deemed anti-Semitic of Yves Bouteiller, its head of checklist within the municipal elections in Romilly-sur-Seine, in Aube. “Informed on Friday of posts of an anti-Semitic nature”the electoral committee of La France insoumise “immediately withdrew his nomination from Mr. Yves Bouteiller in Romilly-sur-Seine”writes the political social gathering in a press launch.

Friday night, the committee for respecting the ideas of the motion determined “of his exclusion from La France insoumise”specifies the press launch. The inauguration of Mr. Bouteiller as head of the checklist in Romilly-sur-Seine (15,000 inhabitants), second largest city within the Aube division, now not appeared on the LFI web site on Saturday morning.

“This candidate has in fact violated the charter of commitment signed by all the candidates invested by La France insoumise through which each undertakes to “reject all comments, behaviors giving rise to harassment or sexist, racist, anti-Semitic, LGBTIphobic and all forms of discrimination”famous the motion’s electoral committee.

Contacted by Agence France-Presse on Saturday morning, Mr. Bouteiller assured that he had no “so far have had no communication from anyone” neither “had contact with anyone”. “I don’t know what this is about.”he added, assuring that he didn’t know to what “posts” LFI was a reference. He refused any further remark, pending explanations with LFI.

Several controversial publications on social networks

Very energetic on Facebook, Yves Bouteiller recurrently relays publications associated to the battle in Gaza. He notably described the socialist deputy Jérôme Guedj, of Jewish religion, as “Zionist bastard”.

In current weeks he has additionally written that “the Crif [Conseil représentatif des institutions juives de France] leads France » and that “the genocidal Zionists learned a lot from the III^e Reich…”in reference to the situations of detention of West Bank civilians in Israeli prisons.

In March, whereas LFI was being singled out for a poster representing Cyril Hanouna which adopted the codes of anti-Semitic posters from the Nineteen Thirties and Nazi Germany, Yves Bouteiller shared a publication by Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Gaza and wrote: “While the media talk about the poster of a fascist racist, the Jews continue the carnage with the support of the macronolepenists. »