Racist slogans, iron bars, balaclavas… The conference of LFI deputies Louis Boyard and Carlos Martens Bilongo at Bordeaux Montaigne University was greatly disrupted by “extreme right activists” on Wednesday evening. The next day, left-wing elected officials announced that they had filed a complaint in a video posted on social networks. They denounce a trivialization of “violent methods” of the far right and also call on the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet, to “initiate legal proceedings in the name of the institution against the militants who have tried to attack the conference”.
The two LFI deputies for their part denounced in a statement “a punitive expedition” of “thirty far-right activists” and asked “from the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin a reaction commensurate with the violence of this attack against far-right groups”. “Freedom of expression is a fundamental freedom and what happened is unacceptable”, reacted Thursday morning Gérald Darmanin in a tweetinviting parliamentarians “to lodge a complaint if they have not done so”.
Louis Boyard filed a complaint last month for “public insult” against host Cyril Hanouna, accusing him of having “insulted him live for having criticized the owner of his channel (C8)”, Vincent Bolloré. Carlos Martens Bilongo was present at the rostrum of the National Assembly when the RN deputy for Gironde, Grégoire de Fournas, had launched in the Hemicycle “that he returns to Africa”, remarks which earned him a 15-day exclusion from the lower house. This case comes after the opening of an investigation, Tuesday in Lyon, on the aggression of rebellious militants in a district where the ultra-right is established for a long time.