2024-02-17 04:45:04
Three hours of icy roads for twenty minutes of a disheveled speech. Magalie and Grégory Bourgeois were ready to do anything to attend the wishes of their deputy Jocelyn Dessigny, on January 18 in Chierry, in Aisne. “We wanted to hear someone who finally tells the truth about things, that’s why we watch less TV at the moment”, explains the mother. The couple of activists from the National Rally (RN), leaving for Portugal, “because we can’t stand Arabs in France anymore”did not regret his trip: the elected official devoted a good part of his speech to immigration.
“We see the flowers of evil growing in the Paris region with drug trafficking, the increase in crime, the expansion of prostitution and arms trafficking”developed the parliamentarian, proud to establish a “link between these crimes and the increase in the sub-Saharan population coming to us from Ile-de-France. (…) Are we going to stand idly by in the face of this problem? “. The elected official did not only receive applause from the sixty people present in the village hall located near Château-Thierry. His comments led the Human Rights League (LDH) to write, Thursday, February 15, to the Saint-Quentin prosecutor, Stéphanie Lescaut.
In the mail that The world has obtained, the association files a complaint against the MP for “public incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence against a person or a group of people because of their origin”. “The disputed remarks are part of hate speech whose content cannot be covered by freedom of expression”, justifies the president of the LDH, Patrick Baudouin, in his letter. Jocelyn Designy, who claims not to be aware of the procedure initiated by the association, considers that “this complaint makes no sense”. “There is nothing racist in my wordsdefends the municipal councilor of Villers-Cotterêts. I made an observation that everyone of good faith shares. »
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This referral to justice is a stain on a party that has set up its dozens of greeting ceremonies as showcases for its normalization enterprise. Most MPs posted a photo of a packed room on their social networks; none failed to relay the presence, sometimes, of officials, elected officials from all sides, even representatives of the tax administration, the gendarmerie or France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi), to attest to the notability gained in the constituencies by the former National Front. If the ceremonies at the start of the year testify to an unprecedented influence of the movement throughout the territory, the speeches and expectations of sympathizers were largely based – during the ten or so events attended The world attended – on the radical fundamentals of the far right.
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