80 years of the Vél d’Hiv roundup: in Pithiviers, Macron wants to continue the fight against anti-Semitism

It appeared, at the beginning of June, on a wall of a parking lot in Avignon. A large fresco, several meters high, representing Emmanuel Macron as a puppet manipulated by Jacques Attali, economist and political adviser from a Jewish family. Taking up all the elements of traditional anti-Semitism, it nevertheless remained intact for some time, the municipality and the metropolis seeing in it only a manifestation of “freedom of expression”. Under pressure from the Vaucluse prefecture, the “work” ended up being withdrawn. The affair marked the spirits at the Élysée. She is, in the eyes of the Head of State, the illustration that “anti-Semitism still lurks and sometimes insidiously”, reports one of his advisers. “And that is very worrying. »