The deputy LREM Rémy Rebeyrotte, who made a Nazi salute in the hemicycle of the National Assembly on July 12 to the attention of an elected RN, was sanctioned Monday by a call to order, a-t- we learned from the President of the Assembly. The office of his political group must also decide on Monday on a possible sanction.
During a vote on the health bill, where the majority was beaten, “a big guy from the RN got up doing the Nazi salute” at the back of the spans, Rémy Rebeyrotte had assured. The parliamentarian from Saône-et-Loire then mimicked the gesture, telling him that “we must not do that”.
The boss of the RN Marine Le Pen group asked for a sanction from the macronist, and far-right deputies denounced an “invention” in this alleged gesture of an elected member of their group.
“I will never give up the fight against extremism”
Rémy Rebeyrotte was heard by the President of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet (LREM), who decided on a call to order, the first level of sanction provided for by the rules of the institution. No visual evidence of such a Nazi salute by an RN deputy has been found. If necessary, the two offending deputies would have been sanctioned, such a gesture being “unacceptable”.
In a press release released a few days ago, Rémy Rebeyrotte had indicated: “If the gesture that I committed to stigmatize an elected representative of the FN (sic) could offend consciences, I want to apologize for it”. “I will never give up the fight against extremism, and in particular against the far right, its attempt to trivialize, its xenophobic, hateful values, dividing Europe and French society”, he added. “I will never give up the fight against extremism, and in particular against the far right, its attempt to trivialize, its xenophobic, hateful values, dividing Europe and French society”, he added.
Far-right MPs have never been so numerous, with a group of 89 members. Without giving in on the substance of their program, they are in search of institutional respectability and intend to continue the “de-demonization” of the RN.