The president of the Renaissance group asked that “humanity” take over the debates on pensions when a knife attack took place this Thursday in Annecy, injuring six.
The patron saint of Renaissance deputies Aurore Bergé was accused Thursday by the opposition of “recovering” the tragedy of Annecy, after asking that “humanity” take over the debates on pensions.
The knife attack, which injured six including four children, came as the National Assembly was debating a proposal to repeal the retirement age at 64.
“To be in the hemicycle at the moment with a kind of battle of rag pickers on the admissibility or not of amendments seems to us to be totally out of step with the dread which in my opinion overwhelms our country”, declared before the press Aurore Bergé (presidential party).
“We want to say our total solidarity, that our thoughts today are only with the families and those who are by their side,” she added. And to insist: “this is what we should remember today, to have humanity”.
“She instrumentalizes everything she can”
The oppositions who battled in the hemicycle on pensions reacted strongly to these remarks.
“Aurore Bergé has long had expressions that are beyond shame” and “instrumentalizes everything she can”, denounced the boss of the PS Olivier Faure.
“Aurore Bergé no longer has any limit in repulsive instrumentalization,” said the president of the LFI group Mathilde Panot on Twitter. “Do you still have a Renaissance honor”, also asked the ecologist Sandrine Rousseau.
A minute of silence at the National Assembly
On the far right, Caroline Parmentier (RN) criticized “total indecency”.
“The barbaric act which targeted children in Annecy has taken place for less than two hours since the macronists have used it against the Liot bill on pension reform”, also denounced the deputy RN Philippe Ballard. According to him, “Aurore Bergé personifies indignity, indecency and stupidity”.
But according to the entourage of the person concerned, her reaction “is that of a mother who feels a deep gap between the noise and the fury of the hemicycle and the calm and the dignity which must embrace us all”. “Those who are indignant see in his statement their own turpitude,” added the same source.
Many deputies from all sides denounced the attack on Annecy, and the Assembly observed a minute of silence, a brief truce during the stormy session.