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“That’s definitely not right!” “The presidential majority and the Republicans expressed their indignation this Sunday March 27 while the crowd present at the meeting of Eric Zemmour at the Trocadéro in Paris, was heard and filmed chanting “Macron Assassin! » for a few seconds, and in the indifference of the candidate of « Reconquest! in the presidential election, which was just before the crimes committed in France in recent years, from the murder of Sarah Halimi to that of Mireille Knoll.
The sequence immediately provoked reactions in the political class. “Someone who doesn’t have the ability to ask the crowd to stop chanting” Macron, assassin ! » is unworthy of a function of political leader”, denounced the former Minister of the Interior and president of the LREM group in the National Assembly, Christophe Castaner, on BFMTV.
Zemmour says he “did not hear the crowd”
The candidate of the Republicans Valérie Pécresse denounced on Twitter an act “dangerous for the Republic”, although it fights “with force the outgoing president”. And to support: “This is certainly not the right! That’s not my France! » « When you want to be President of the Republic, you must first have it respected by your own militants! When you are a candidate, you have no right to let this chant! “, reacted the president of the South region and support of the candidate Macron, Renaud Muselier.
Such remarks are “a shame for democracy and the Republic” judged LR deputy Damien Abad, who indicated on Twitter that “the Republican Right has nothing in common with this candidate of disrespect. » According to our informationEric Zemmour’s team reports that the candidate had “not heard” the crowd and that he “does not endorse this expression”.