Rebellious France questioned by the fitting and the intense proper | EUROtoday
It is in an flammable context that Jean-Luc Mélenchon spoke on Sunday February 15, in Montpellier, throughout a gathering for the municipal elections, in assist of his native candidate, Nathalie Oziol. The day earlier than, Quentin D., a 23-year-old id activist, died, the sufferer of clashes between anti-fascist and far-right activists, on the sidelines of a convention given at Sciences Po Lyon by La France Insoumise (LFI) MEP Rima Hassan two days earlier.
Since then, LFI has been below intense strain, blamed by the fitting and the far proper. “It is clearly the ultra-left who killed”declared the Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, Sunday to the Grand Jury RTL-Public Senate-Le Figaro-M6, echoing Marion Maréchal’s feedback made the day earlier than. “The Mélenchon and LFI militia killed”she wrote on X. “It’s not the police who kill in France, it’s the far left”had corroborated the previous Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau.
Without calling into query the motion, Emmanuel Macron denounced a “unbelievable surge of violence”. “In the Republic, no cause, no ideology will ever justify killing”wrote the pinnacle of state on “quietly”. Faced with the assaults, Jean-Luc Mélenchon started by inserting himself in a sufferer place whereas a number of parliamentary workplaces, similar to in Périgueux, Lille, Paris, Castres, Montpellier and Toulouse have been degraded in current days. “ Coming today is already protesting against the violence that we continually suffer night and day,” launched the “rebellious” chief in entrance of a whole bunch of activists, deploring not benefiting from the “ police protection »neither “of justice”.
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