For Dominique de Villepin, there are “two dangerous ideas” which lure the talk: “That of the symmetry of violence from the left and the right” and that of the “normalization of the extreme right”
On X, the previous prime minister of Jacques Chirac returned intimately to the loss of life of far-right activist Quentin Deranque and particularly the reactions to them. “When reality is complicated, you have to take the time for reflection, for nuance, for perspective. The Quentin Deranque affair places us before such an obligation, writes Dominique de Villepin. First, it must be said bluntly: we must denounce all violence, whatever it may be, and denounce it without exception. We must condemn political violence, all political violence, because it has no place in a democracy. Without exception. »
The politician who, moreover, launched his party, La France Humaniste, condemns the political recovery around this death. “There is something disturbing about seeing the entire political landscape, from left to right to left, seeking to take advantage of the situation. The far right is the only winner”, he insists.
“Rebellious France has a particular responsibility today: that of not outbidding and not sterilizing, in a defensive and bellicose posture, part of the electorate,” provides the previous minister. “I say this forcefully, because the shift is possible. It must be said bluntly: LFI plays into the hands of the RN just as much by relying on its rhetoric as certain left-wing leaders do by agreeing to refer the violence back to back”he insists.
“But it is here that vigilance must be the highest: condemning violence and criticizing LFI must not lead us to the major political error, that of dismissing all radicalism back to back as if they were of the same nature, of the same force, of the same danger”continues Dominique de Villepin. “There are, in fact, two false ideas, two dangerous ideas, which trap this debate. The first is that of the symmetry of the violence of the left and the right. he recalls.
Dominique de Villepin thus gives the figures for this violence: “The far left has claimed one victim in the last five years, far-right activists have claimed eleven, mainly victims targeted on religious and racial grounds, with deeply political motives”he writes.
Finally, based on him, the second false concept, “it is that of the normalization of the extreme right, now considered a legitimate part of the political debate”helps Dominique de Villepin, who provides that“by concentrating blows on LFI, by techniques, by consolation, by calculation, we create a hall of respectability for the RN. He is obtainable what he has all the time dreamed of: the looks of normalcy, the privilege of being the reply to the dysfunction he thrives on sustaining. »
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