2023-11-22 05:30:15
Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella during the march against anti-Semitism, in Paris, November 12, 2023. CYRIL BITTON / DIVERGENCE POUR “LE MONDE”
A teenager killed in a small village in the Drôme, a gardener attacked while being the target of racist insults in the Paris suburbs: Monday, November 20, the leader of La France insoumise (LFI), Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and that of National Rally (RN), Marine Le Pen, the two main figures of the opposition to Emmanuel Macron, each reacted to a recent news item. But not the same, because each intended to serve their own political message.
In the case of the gardener attacked with a cutter, in Val-de-Marne, on November 17, by a septuagenarian treating him as a « sale bougnoule »LFI sees the proof of an act “Arabophobe”, according to the term used by Mr. Mélenchon; in the death of the 16-year-old young man, in Crépol, after the attack on a village festival by attackers armed with knives, which also left eight injured, the extreme right wants to read the irruption into the villages of the violence of cities and immigrant populations. An exploitation of a news item intended for its own electoral clientele.
Marine Le Pen and her relatives did not react to the attack in Val-de-Marne. Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his supporters said nothing about the dead man from Drôme. On social networks, from Discord to Telegram via
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The deputy (LFI) of the Somme François Ruffin expressed his regret on Tuesday, November 21, in a message on the social network trying to reconcile the attacks of Thomas, in Crepol, and Mourad, in Villecresnes. “A heavy, insidious, unspoken atmosphere reigns in the media, on social networks: as if one had to choose one’s side, according to the real or supposed origin of the victims or the aggressorshe writes. “Being Thomas” or “being Mourad”. In short, as if, what matter the subjects from now on, the rule had become hemiplegia, half-blindness in our humanity. »
The identity, origin and motivations of the attackers in Drôme remain unclear, according to the words of the public prosecutor of Valence, who clarified, Monday evening, that“it is false to assert that the hostile group would be composed of individuals all from the same city and the same neighborhood”.
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The far right, however, did not wait to try to give an ethnic character to this news item. Marine Le Pen presented it as a “raid”a word of Arabic origin which primarily refers to the Arab-Muslim incursions of ancient times. And she seems to take for granted the origins and motivations of the authors, speaking of “people with an immigrant background” indulging in “real punitive raids on villages”.
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