The quantity 2 of the PS denounces the assaults of elected officers and activists as a result of “that they are socialist and because some of them are Jews” | EUROtoday

Socialist activists and elected officers have been attacked through the Parisian demonstration of 1^er-May as a result of “That they are socialist and because some of them are Jews”accused Friday, May 2, the primary delegate secretary of the Socialist Party (PS), Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol.

The incidents occurred on the stage of the stand put in by the get together on the course. Demonstrators wearing black, some sporting anti -fas flags, strongly jostled elected officers and activists. The Ministry of the Interior reported 4 mild injured among the many socialists. The PS filed a grievance and, in line with the Paris prosecutor’s workplace, an individual was positioned in police custody.

“First there were insults, verbal threats (…). And then arrived hinged cowards, dressed in black and which have physically attacked the militants and the socialist elected officials. For what ? One because they are socialist, and two because some of them are Jews ”denounced Mr. Mayer-Rossignol on Sud Radio. “There have been mortar pictures (…). We have mates who discovered themselves within the emergency room, who have been injured. It might have been extraordinarily critical ”judged the mayor of Rouen, quantity two of the PS and competitor of Olivier Faure for the subsequent get together congress in June.

MP Jérôme Guedj, of Jewish confession, needed to be dismissed from the procession after being “Again the target of anti -Semitic insults”in line with the primary secretary of the Socialist Federation of Paris, Lamia El Aaraje. Mr. Guedj had already needed to go away a rally on Sunday in opposition to Islamophobia organized following the homicide of a devoted in a mosque within the Gard.

“All this is consistent with the detestation they [les agresseurs] have socialists at the place and in my singular place ”said Mr. Guedj, for whom “It stinks anti -Semitism”.

Jérôme Guedj regrets not having been contacted by Olivier Faure

The episode creates a strong emotion and tension on the left. Mr. Mayer-Rossignol regretted not having “View of a transparent assist model significantly in Jérôme Guedj” from rebellious France (LFI) and denounced “The local weather” maintained “By the technique of fracturing and brutalization of the general public debate” of the movement of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

“Thank you to the media for stopping to impute any motion in opposition to such or such within the Parisian demonstrationshad merely reacted the LFI coordinator, Manuel Bompard, Thursday night on X. We don’t agree with the truth that we regulate political disagreements like this. »»

Thursday night, the chief of the Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, had sowed the difficulty after refusing to reply a query of RTL which requested him if the taking to the a part of Mr. Guedj was of maximum left anti -Semitism, and after having recommended that the socialist had just a little provocative habits. “I also see how Jérôme Guedj meets, comes with twenty journalists”, she had declared. She lastly apologized on Friday morning, explaining that she was misinformed of incidents.

Even inside the PS, the local weather is tense. Jérôme Guedj, who’s within the camp of opponents to Olivier Faure and helps Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol for the subsequent congress, thus attacked X on the present first secretary who didn’t have “A call neither yesterday nor since Sunday for the spokesperson of the PS that[’il est] »».

Several left -wing personalities have also supported the socialist deputy. “You must be clear, I assist Jérôme Guedj”said Clémentine Autain, MP for the Ecologist and Social group, on RTL. “There are acts of anti -Semitism in France, I condemn all of them with out reservation together with the violence which may be the topic of Jérôme Guedj”added to Franceinfo Lucie Castets, who had been proposed as a candidate for Matignon by the new Popular Front in the summer of 2024.