2023-08-17 21:34:07
The message, although implicit, was transmitted. Thursday, during the commemoration of the liberation of the city of Bormes-les-Mimosas, in the Var, Emmanuel Macron warned against “chaos” and “injustice”, fruits according to him of “division” and “disunity”, before lending himself to a quick walkabout with the onlookers who came to wait for him.
“There is in our young people an appetite for freedom, an idealism that sometimes seeks itself. And to which we must respond. Without which, sometimes, this noble aspiration turns against itself and undermines the foundations of this nation of freedom, equality and fraternity initiated in 1789, this sum of tangled destinies which increases French youth, generation after generation, faithful in the spirit of enlightenment,” he said in a speech echoing the recent urban riots, which erupted after Nahel’s death.
No direct mention of political news
“And this freedom, which exists only because it is always and first of all collective, the rights which follow which are only there because there were first of all duties, it is what we need to feed our younger generations,” he continued.
The president also wanted to honor the young French people “ready to die for collective freedom” who took part in the Provence landings between August and September 1944. This was his first speech since the summer break, followed some time later of a walkabout.
However, he did not mention the “large-scale political initiative” he had announced in Le Figaro Magazine for the end of August. He did not, on the whole, make any other allusion to current political events. Following the riots linked to the death of young Nahel in Nanterre on June 27, the Head of State called for the restoration of authority in the country, at all levels.
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