While the Head of State, Emmanuel Macron, denounced “a heinous attack” whose “Kurds from France were the target”many politicians expressed their “stupor”their ” anger ” and their “sadness”, after the shooting which caused the death of three people, Friday, December 23, in front of the Kurdish cultural center Ahmet-Kaya, in Paris.
The elected representatives of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes), talkative about the affair, unanimously underlined the responsibility of the extreme right. The alleged assailant, William M., was already suspected of having injured, in 2021, two people with a saber in a camp occupied by migrants. Facts for which he has not yet been tried. In police custody, the 69-year-old man claimed to experience a “hatred of foreigners has become completely pathological”, reported the Paris prosecutor’s office in a press release, Sunday, December 25. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin explained that the shooter was not “filed as being someone ultra-right”. However, he confirmed that he had “obviously wanted to attack foreigners”.
“A year ago, he attacked migrants. Today the criminal attacked the Kurds. What happened in Paris must wake up all of us to the danger that the far right represents”, affirmed, on Saturday, the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, in a tweet. “Giving legitimacy to racism is to arm the identitarians”, he continues. The elected socialist of Essonne Jérôme Guedj split a “The far right kills”.
“No coincidence”
Among the Greens, the story is no different. The deputy of Paris Sandrine Rousseau calls, on Twitter, to “no longer minimizing and turning a blind eye to far-right violence”. “The extreme right ideology is the hatred of the other, his rejection. It’s no wonder some take action.”, she added. More cautious, the new national secretary of Europe Ecology-The Greens, Marine Tondelier, pleaded for “all the light [soit] made on the racist nature of this attack”, before lamenting that “hate kills”. Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the French Communist Party, also directly underlined the motive “racist” of the attack. As well as’“a possible attack by a man, watered by hate speech, who attacked Sudanese refugees with sabers eleven months ago”.
At the National Rally (RN), Julien Odoul strongly disputes the allegations of the left. The deputy of Yonne denounces ” hypocrisy “ of his opponents: “The same people who constantly call us for restraint and decency are rushing to surf on this drama: it’s shameful”regrets to the Monde the frontist, who maintains that the attack is the act of a “psychiatric patient”. The new president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, vilified the release of the alleged perpetrator, under judicial supervision, “despite a heavy background”. Marine Le Pen has remained more sober. “Stupor and emotion after the shooting in the heart of Paris”tweeted the leader of the RN deputies.
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