“I totally dissociate myself from Jean-Luc Mélenchon and some of his deputies who refused to call for calm and legitimized this urban violence.” These remarks by Fabien Roussel on Tuesday morning on France 2 fueled the fire that burns on the left, between the Communists and the Insoumis.
“We need to call for calm, need for order, justice and respect for all citizens of the Republic, for the municipalities and all the territories. We need republican equality, again insisted the national secretary of the PCF. Today there are two Frances which no longer speak to each other, which do not understand each other and which oppose each other. The fracture is extremely serious. It must be repaired with heart and humanity.”
The deputy from the North “proposes a real local police force with 30,000 hires”. “We can make the most beautiful cities we want, he said, it is useless if there is 40% unemployment. The heart of it all is work: making sure everyone has a job!” He still proposes to “hire 90,000 additional teachers”.
In the morning, parliamentarians close to the triple Insoumis presidential candidate stepped up to the defense. “I dissociate myself from Fabien Roussel, from his presence alongside the police union Alliance, from his insults against the so-called ‘radicalized fringe of working-class neighborhoods’, and from this crude lie borrowed from the right according to which we have “legitimized “Violence”, retorted the deputy LFI Bastien Lachaud (Seine-Saint-Denis), in reference to a demonstration by the police in front of the National Assembly in May 2021.
“Playing the learned dog of macrono-darmanism guarantees him to pass in the media”, again attacked the deputy Aurélien Saintoul (Seine-Saint-Denis). “The incantation to calm does not bring calm?” Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the evening before on LCI, had repeated: “the question for a politician is not to call for calm and to give himself postures, it is to try to arrive at the calm and for that to rationally solve the problems that arise.
Tuesday morning before the deputies in the Assembly, Elisabeth Borne said she was “very shocked by the words of LFI…” “They even sort among the buildings to be attacked or not as if it were possible! LFI is outside the republican framework, ”added the head of government in reference to comments by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Friday evening, who invited the rioters not to attack public buildings, schools or libraries. Late Monday afternoon, Mathilde Panot, president of the LFI group in the Assembly, voluntarily shortened a meeting with Elisabeth Borne, who received the heads of parliamentary formations. “We had no answers to our questions. We did not want a meeting behind closed doors but a debate in Parliament, ”said MP LFI (Val-de-Marne). She again affirmed on Tuesday that “the power no longer controls its police”.
