“Let him return to Africa”: the National Assembly draws up a unanimous front in the face of the Fournas controversy

It is a little before 4:30 p.m. when the president of the group of Insoumis deputies, Mathilde Panot, leaves the meeting of the office of the National Assembly. “We succeeded,” she breathes, visibly relieved. The members of the office have just voted unanimously – apart from the votes of the National Rally – the heaviest possible disciplinary sanction against the RN deputy, Grégoire de Fournas: censorship with exclusion. In question ? His words, “let him return to Africa” ​​launched during an intervention by the LFI deputy, Carlos Martens Bilongo. The wave of indignation was immediate, all the benches, except those of the RN, seeing it as a racist cry from the heart.