The elected RN members of the office of the National Assembly having preferred to leave the meeting before the vote of the final sanction, it is therefore unanimously of the 20 remaining members that the fate of deputy Grégoire de Fournas has been recorded. The elected representative of Gironde risked, let us remember, a call to order, a simple censorship or a censorship with temporary exclusion. Grégoire de Fournas is indeed threatened with a 15-day exclusion. This is what the office of the National Assembly is asking for this Friday before a vote of the deputies in the hemicycle to record this sanction. The latter had met the day after the remark deemed racist dropped in the middle of the hemicycle by the deputy RN.
“I left before the vote but I knew that they would do that when entering the room”, was indignant for her part even before the announcement of the deliberation the boss of RN, Marine Le Pen. And to continue: “From the moment they consider that the political idea must be condemned, we move away from the freedom of opinion of democracy and from the very foundation of the work of the National Assembly (…) Claiming that migrant boats drop off in the ports of departure is racist, ”she said again ironically.
According to the written report of the debates, published overnight on the National Assembly website, Grégoire de Fournas chanted around 5 p.m. the phrase “Let him return to Africa”, while LFI deputy Carlos Martens Bilongo , of black skin color, was asking the government a question about the ship “Ocean Viking” and the migrants it had rescued.
Petition to ask for his resignation
The elected RN has always claimed that he was targeting the boat and the people he was transporting, and not his fellow deputy. At first, some elected officials had criticized him for having dropped the expression “Go back to Africa! “.
VIDEO. Incident in the Assembly: Louis Boyard demands “the heaviest sanction” against Grégoire de Fournas
Many elected officials from the left and from the presidential majority had asked for heavy sanctions against Grégoire de Fournas. Friday morning, the Minister of the Interior had said “hope that the office of the National Assembly will take the strongest decision to sanction this deputy”. “I think the question of his resignation arises for him,” he added to the microphone of RMC. Renaissance has also launched a petition on the change.org site to demand the resignation of the elected RN.