2023-07-02 22:58:50
Jean-Luc Melenchon, during a rally, in Ax-les-Thermes (Ariège), March 21, 2023. CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP
Positions, which mark a real difference with those of its allies. Since the beginning of the urban riots, following the death of Nahel M., on Tuesday June 27, the founder of La France insoumise (LFI), Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and his troops, have been singled out by the presidential camp, the right and the extreme right, who reproach them for not firmly condemning the violence and looting, and for throwing oil on the fire. But not only. On the left, the other forces of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) – socialists, communists and ecologists – also criticize the leader of the “rebellious”, deploring that he does not call for appeasement.
Sunday July 2, on LCI, Mr. Mélenchon still refused “ to call for calm”. He also did not want to raise the responsibility of the thugs, who commit the acts of violence. “It is the poor who rise up”, he said, considering that the police “are responsible for part of the situation”. And to add: “He who bears the authority bears the responsibility. »
Two days earlier, the triple presidential candidate was even sorting out acceptable degradations and others. In a video broadcast after the ransacking of many public services, it asked the ” younger “ not ” do not touch “ to schools, libraries and gymnasiums, presenting them as ” our common good”.
Olivier Faure concedes “a deep disagreement”
“What does that mean, that everything else can be burned?” », questioned Saturday, July 1, the former prime minister of François Hollande, Bernard Cazeneuve. The ex-socialist was in Lyon at the Summer Days of the mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin, Hélène Geoffroy, at the head of a current opposed to Nupes. Also present, the first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, accused of having subjugated the party to LFI, was once again summoned to justify himself. The deputy of Seine-et-Marne had to concede “a deep disagreement” with the leader of the “rebellious”. “We do not have to encourage abuses on businesses and public property,” he added. This outing stung Mr. Mélenchon, who recalled on LCI that Mr. Faure had voted the 2017 law on the relaxation of the use of firearms for the police, then proposed by Bernard Cazeneuve. “Their profound disagreement is undoubtedly this law”launched the founder of LFI.
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The positions of Jean-Luc Mélenchon contrast with the rest of the Nupes, who unreservedly condemned the violence of recent days. Asked about Franceinfo, Saturday July 1, Fabien Roussel admitted to holding “a different speech” you lead the LFI. The communist leader made it clear that he had “from the start” called ” quiet “, like environmentalists, and refused to establish a hierarchy between the degradations committed in recent days.
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