She had testified to her discomfort in front of the TF1 cameras on May 1, on the sidelines of the meeting of Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen (RN) in Perpignan. And the testimony of Colombe, a 60-year-old woman, had been seen and commented on millions of times on social networks. “I’m on the RSA, we’re having a hard time living. We can’t pay the bills. We have the bailiffs, the threats. There is no work, no factory, battles to wage, whether for health or work,” she explained.
“Will I fit in my apartment, will I be able to live. What will tomorrow be like? » asked this unemployed professional integration advisor. His fears for his future led to reactions from all political sides, notably from the PCF and Manon Aubry, head of the LFI list in the European elections. She called on the left to “resume the conquest of the working classes” and “expose the social scam” of the RN.
Colombe also mentioned his status as a volunteer at the Restaurants from the heart… a structure of which she has no longer been a part. A volunteer since 1990, he was reportedly ordered to leave the association following this interview. According to his lawyer Jérémy Kalfon, Colombe would have received a call “from a local manager” on May 3 “instructing her to resign following her comments on May 1, which according to her constituted an error with regard to the volunteers’ charter. Respectful of the hierarchy and the rules, Colombe did not resist and reluctantly resigned. The latter was therefore indeed pushed towards the exit.” “I tell the Restos du coeur that they should be ashamed of their behavior,” says Marine Le Pen, on social networks.
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Contacted by TF1, a national manager of the association denies any pressure. “We just gave him a point of order. […] Maybe she felt pushed out. And so she left. There is a procedure for excluding volunteers which has not been initiated at all. »
This charter stipulates the obligation to abandon “one’s political and religious positions at the door of the Restaurants”. But Colombe “denies having committed any fault”. She “has no active political activity” and “has in no way associated the image of Restos du coeur with the positions or action of the National Rally”.
The sixty-year-old therefore requests her reinstatement and “the wish to continue her associative activity and not to become a political symbol”, explains her lawyer.