Rebellious France plunged into a new controversy. After the banning of a meeting on the question of Palestine in a university in Lille on Thursday, Jean-Luc Mélenchon finally hastily organized a meeting in a small square in Lille, in the open air. The next day, the leader of La France insoumise described as a “completely gratuitous Islamophobic accusation” the remarks of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal who had denounced during a speech in Viry-Châtillon “an Islamist entryism” advocating “the precepts of Sharia law, particularly in our schools.
“Drift of part of the political elite”
Islamophobia, his main fight? This is what Malika Sorel, number 2 on the National Rally list in the European elections, suggests at the microphone of Sonia Mabrouk. Guest of the Grand Rendez-vous Europe 1/Cnews/Les Échos, the candidate denounces the “drift” of the politician.
“Mélenchon was one of the greatest and most fervent secularists, and he perfectly illustrates the drift of a part of the political elite: political clientelism. For me, it is electoral clientelism and it is this clientelism which has nourished communitarianism and separatism,” she accused this Sunday.
“Genocidal comments”
“I said that I wanted to protect freedom of expression but I added that freedom of expression had a limit: if your words call for you to physically attack individuals or property. There, in what framework are we -we? We are not at all within the framework of freedom of expression”, details the essayist, denouncing the message of the posters of Thursday’s meeting, originally planned at the University of Lille, ” denying the State of Israel.
“Can a democracy authorize genocidal remarks? I think not. So they are showing their colors,” concludes Malika Sorel.