Green MP Sandrine Rousseau accused the far right on Friday, November 24, and particularly Éric Zemmour, of “blowing on the embers” by exploiting the death of young Thomas in the Drôme, questioning him about his desire to cause “ratonnades”.
“What do you want? You want there to be victims? (…) Do you want there to be ratonnades? Is that what you actually want? Is that what you’re looking for?” asked the Paris MP on Sud Radio. She thus highlighted the political position adopted by the far right for whom Thomas, 16, killed with a knife on Saturday during a village festival, was the victim of “everyday jihad” and “anti-white racism “.
Nine people, including the one suspected of having given the fatal blows, were arrested. No identity was revealed, the prosecution simply noted that the latter lived in the center of Romans-sur-Isère and not in a city. Asked about the “racist” motivation of the far right, Sandrine Rousseau replied: “obviously, since they designated the culprits (…) the neighborhood gangs (with) behind the idea that they were people , probably Arabs or I don’t know.
She accused the far right more broadly of “stoking the idea that we would be threatened by Islamization”. “It’s false,” she added, “the source of hatred is to consider that on the basis of a fact, a person or a group of people, all the supposed community would be in support or accomplice of this person. “Those I see today leading the civil war are those who are fueling this, it is Zemmour today who is blowing on the embers,” she lamented.