Comments by RN deputy Frédéric-Pierre Vos on the Rwandan genocide within the National Assembly spark an outcry | EUROtoday

The feedback of a member of the National Rally (RN), who mockingly talked about the Rwandan genocide through the budgetary debates within the Assembly, sparked sturdy condemnations on Thursday January 15 and might be topic to sanctions.

“Resistance to oppression means not confusing equality with egalitarianism, and transforming yourself into a Tutsi to cut off the Hutus under the pretext that they were bigger”launched the Oise MP Frédéric-Pierre Vos, throughout a debate in regards to the Dutreil pact, which supplies for a 75% tax discount on the switch of household companies to descendants.

The president of the Ecologist and Social group, Cyrielle Chatelain, instantly reacted, judging these feedback “absolutely shameful”. “This amounts to a negationist attitude (…). Comparing the fact of wanting the fair contribution of the French to a genocide where people were killed with machetes is unacceptable”she thundered.

An “intolerable” sentence

The deputy for Côtes-d’Armor Hervé Berville (Renaissance), born in Rwanda and himself a Tutsi orphan, denounced a phrase “intolerable”who furthermore “reverses the victim and the executioner”. “This says a lot about the distance we still have to go to ensure that this genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda is fully recognized”he confused.

The genocide in Rwanda left greater than 800,000 useless in response to the UN, primarily Tutsi murdered between April and July 1994. Other deputies condemned this macabre comparability, together with the president of the Socialists and Allies group, Boris Vallaud, who hoped that the workplace of the National Assembly – answerable for saying the heaviest sanctions in opposition to deputies – “takes up these remarks which are extremely serious”. “I will contact the president”replied the session chair, Marie-Agnès Poussier-Winsback (Horizons).

Somme MP Jean-Philippe Tanguy (RN) apologized for his group, including: “We honor the reminiscence of the victims of the genocide in Rwanda. »