Emmanuel Macron denounces “the anti-Semitic hydra”, which “continues to progress” | EUROtoday

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Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron commemorate the twenty years of the death of Ilan Halimi, with the companion of his sister and his nephews, at the Elysée, on February 13, 2026.

Twenty years to the day after the assassination of Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old Jewish man tortured to dying in 2006 by the “barbarian gang”, Emmanuel Macron grabbed a shovel on Friday, February 13, within the gardens of the Elysée, to plant in his reminiscence a sessile oak, which might stay as much as 1,000 years. A symbolic gesture within the face of “anti-Semitic barbarity” who has, in twenty years, “stopped regenerating”, lamented the pinnacle of state throughout a speech delivered a couple of minutes earlier than.

In this speech, with a political tone, the President of the Republic underlined renewed anti-Semitism, and the accountability of Islamism, the acute proper and the acute left. ” Yes, in twenty years (…) the anti-Semitic hydra has continued to advance. Constantly taking on new faces”noted Emmanuel Macron. Before quoting in turn “Islamist anti-Semitism”, “far-left anti-Semitism (…) who competes with that of the extreme right and its clichés about power and wealth”, “anti-Semitism which uses the mask of anti-Zionism to progress quietly” And “digital anti-Semitism”.

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