2023-11-24 12:23:54
Inès Taourit, president of the majority opposition group RN Osons for Hénin-Beaumont, November 9. STEPHANE DUBROMEL / HANS LUCAS FOR M LE MAGAZINE DU MONDE
“We fear that this is the beginning of an ideological imprint. » In a bar in the city center of Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais), where she is accustomed, Inès Taourit clutches her cup of coffee. At 29, she is the president of the opposition group Osons for Hénin-Beaumont (various left) facing the majority National Rally (RN), the political party at the head of Hénin-Beaumont town hall since 2014.
During the municipal council of October 26, the mayor of the city, Steeve Briois, submitted for deliberation the name of a future roundabout, under construction until the end of the year, located just in front of one of the police stations city police. The name of Michel de Camaret is proposed, given the career of this man. A distinguished soldier, resistance fighter, companion of the Liberation, his CV apparently does not tolerate any criticism.
But, beyond his record of service, the man hides a much less consensual side. Younger, Michel de Camaret, who died in 1987, joined the camelots du roi, a branch of Action Française, a far-right nationalist and royalist movement. Well after the war, following a career as a diplomat, he was second on the National Front (FN) list in the 1984 European elections, during the time of Jean-Marie Le Pen. Faced with these records of service, Inès Taourit votes against this deliberation. It will still be adopted.
Also a member of the Osons group for Hénin-Beaumont, the general secretary of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV), Marine Tondelier, declared during the municipal council: “What is happening, and this does not offend anyone, is that you are attempting to take over the public space of our city. »
André Bilde et Brigitte Bardot
Because, before the Michel-de-Camaret roundabout, the RN town hall named a street named after André-Bilde, grandfather of the current local RN deputy Bruno Bilde, as well as an avenue named after Brigitte -Bardot. Convicted six times for racist remarks, the former actress also publicly showed her support for Marine Le Pen.
“When we give street names, it is for memory, to honor people, to establish cohesion in this city. And the way you do it is not neutral,” continued Marine Tondelier. Accusations that Steeve Briois describes as“in need of wits about the opposition”. “I am the only mayor of Hénin-Beaumont to have had an avenue named in the name of Nestor Calonne, former communist mayor, he argues in his response sent to M. Although I very rarely propose names, these are done in a balanced manner and while respecting political pluralism. »
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