LFI “will never accept religious entryism”, assures Jean-Luc Mélenchon earlier than a fee of inquiry into Islamism | EUROtoday

Rebellious France “will never accept religious entryism”assured Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Saturday, December 6 throughout his listening to earlier than the parliamentary fee of inquiry into supposed hyperlinks between political actions and Islamist networks, assuring that his motion had already been “exonerated” by the work of the fee.

“The question of the secularism of the State is foundational” for our motion, affirmed Jean-Luc Mélenchon after having acknowledged “the existence of an Islamist threat among many others”. He known as to not confuse “Islam and Islamism” And “Islamism with terrorism”.

“Your commission has already produced the documents which absolutely exonerate us. All the intelligence officials you’ve heard from, none of them say there’s a link between us and the Islamists.”added the founder of LFI.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon was summoned on Saturday by the commission of inquiry launched by LR. He had initially been summoned to be heard on Tuesday, like the boss of the Ecologists Marine Tondelier, but La France insoumise had indicated that he was “already taken this Tuesday” and that he “could not be available at such short notice”the invitation from the fee having been left on the dwelling of the rebellious chief on Saturday night.

“Climate of permanent suspicion”

The office (president, vice-presidents, secretaries, etc.) of this commission arouses numerous criticisms on the left because it does not include any deputies from left-wing groups, while the regulations stipulate that these appointments must be made in accordance with“trying to reproduce the political configuration of the Assembly”.

Launched after multiple upheavals, the commission of inquiry, whose president is LR Xavier Breton and rapporteur Ciottiste Matthieu Bloch, must complete its work around December 10.

The powers of a commission of inquiry include in particular summons with an obligation for the person to attend, powers of investigation and to conduct hearings under oath.

At the start of her hearing Tuesday afternoon, Marine Tondelier had accused this body, “by the way in which it is created and how it chooses and formulates its questions” of “feeding this climate of permanent suspicion which weighs on too many of our compatriots due to real or supposed affiliation with a religion, in this case Islam”.