The National Rally “has no place” in the march against anti-Semitism planned for Sunday, said Wednesday the number one of the Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, who “does not intend to be absent” from this event but “will not march not alongside” the far-right party. “That there is a march against anti-Semitism is important,” declared Fabien Roussel on France 2, the day after the announcement of a demonstration by the presidents of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet , and from the Senate, Gérard Larcher.
“We may march in another place, but not with them”
But “they must specify the contours of this gathering”, added the communist leader, who “would not understand that the RN participates in such a march” because this party “descends from the National Front” founded by Jean -Marie Le Pen “several times condemned for anti-Semitic remarks” and by men who had collaborated with Nazi Germany.
“It is their descendants with whom we should march? What image are we going to send back to the children of deportees (and) resistance fighters?”, was indignant Fabien Roussel, for whom “the RN, in of its history, has no place in such a gathering”. “In any case, for my part, I will not march alongside him,” he added, specifying that for the communists, “it is not a question of being absent from a march against anti-Semitism “.
“We will perhaps march in another place, but not with them,” he insisted, indicating that he would discuss it with “other leaders of Republican left forces”. But a priori not with the Insoumis leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon who on Tuesday evening rejected a “meeting” of “friends of unconditional support for the massacre” in Gaza. “Excessive comments” like “every time”, lamented Fabien Roussel, who no longer has contact with him: “It’s over, we cut off with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, I no longer speak to (him)” .
Furthermore, the communist leader indicated that he would go, at the invitation of Emmanuel Macron, to the new “Saint-Denis meetings” on November 17. “We will go in particular to be able to talk about Gaza and Palestine,” he said. This makes him the first left-wing leader to formalize his participation in this meeting of party leaders: the PS and LFI announced that they would not go there, the environmentalists have not yet officially given their position.