Emmanuel Macron needs a “mandatory penalty of ineligibility” for elected officers responsible of “anti-Semitic and racist acts and remarks” | EUROtoday

Emmanuel Macron needs a “mandatory ineligibility penalty” for elected officers responsible of“anti-Semitic, racist and discriminatory acts and remarks”as a result of politicians have to be “sentinels of the Republic”.

“Too often, the sentences handed out against the perpetrators of anti-Semitic offenses and crimes seem derisory. To ensure transparency and truth, I would like precise monitoring of penalties and sanctions to be put in place.”he declared, Friday February 13, on the event of his tribute to Ilan Halimi, a younger Jew kidnapped and tortured to dying in 2006.

“The government and Parliament will work to strengthen the criminalization of anti-Semitic and racist acts”he additionally assured, with out additional particulars.

The head of state denounced “the anti-Semitic hydra” who interfered “in every gap” of the corporate “for twenty years”. According to him, the “Anti-Semitic barbarity has not receded. On the contrary, it has continued to regenerate itself.”

“Poison of digital hatred”

Mr. Macron successively attacked “Islamist anti-Semitism at the origin of the October 7 pogrom” in Israel, “far-left anti-Semitism (…), who disputes it with that of the far right and its clichés about power and wealth”and to “anti-Semitism which uses the mask of anti-Zionism to progress quietly”.

The French president additionally criticized makes an attempt to “dehumanize” THE “fellow Jews”. “So many insults, blows, threats, anguish. As long as the statistics of anti-Semitic acts [sont] up sharply since October 7 »he recalled.

According to a report from the Ministry of the Interior on anti-religious acts, for twenty-five years, anti-Semitic acts “have never been as high as during the last three years”in a context of sharp improve following the assault of October 7, 2023, notes the ministry. Between 2023 and 2024, these acts elevated fourfold. “Because we cannot erase the French Jews from the family photo of the Republic, because when a Jew is in danger in the homeland, it is the homeland itself that is in danger”defined Mr. Macron.

To battle “against the poison of digital hatred”France “will hold major platforms accountable and deliver measurable results in the rapid removal of hateful content”. “If the commitments are not kept, we will activate European law, which provides for significant fines”he assured.

The head of state then planted an oak tree within the backyard of the Elysée, “symbol of rooting the memory of Ilan Halimi in the Republic”.