2023-06-09 02:04:54
It is a little after 10 a.m., this Thursday, June 8, when the director of the cabinet of Gérald Darmanin receives the call from Yves Le Breton, prefect of Haute-Savoie. The senior official tries to remain factual despite the terror that has just gripped Annecy. Thirty minutes earlier an individual stabbed four small children, aged from 22 months to 3 years, some in their pushchairs, as well as two adults in a park located on the shores of Lake Annecy. The Minister of the Interior, in Luxembourg for the European Council “Justice and Home Affairs”, the “JAI”, transmits the elements he receives drop by drop to the services of the Head of State and to the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, then hastily takes off for Annecy.
In Paris, the drama is displayed in “one” of the channels and news sites. Is he a jihadist? Of a fanatic? At that time, we only know that he is a Syrian refugee, who has obtained the right of asylum in Sweden. He is thirty years old and identity papers on him. The Secretary of State for Associations, Marlène Schiappa, who went to Conflans-Sainte-Honorine after the assassination of Samul Paty in October 2020, sends a message of support to the one whom the ministers call “GD”. And is already worried about the amalgam that could be made with migration issues.
Since the fall, the government dithering on the immigration bill. The text, which combines measures restricting the reception of foreigners and others facilitating the regularization of undocumented workers working in trades « a tension »bristles the right.
“Absolute cowardice”
In a tweet, Marlène Schiappa shares the “shock” felt before being called to order, like the whole government, by the services of Matignon: “Please do not speak before the president and the prime minister. » Emmanuel Macron has already expressed his emotion on Twitter talking about a “attack of absolute cowardice” and a nation ” shocked “. But Elisabeth Borne, on her way to Annecy, has not yet spoken.
In the National Assembly, the bill (PPL) of the Freedoms, Independents, Overseas and Territories (LIOT) group seeking to repeal the pension reform was to be debated. But after an interruption of the session, Charles de Courson, at the origin of the PPL which was emptied of its substance a little earlier by the presidential camp, decides with his to remove the text as news of the tragedy spreads through the Hall of Four Columns.
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