“It’s winter, it’s cold, poor people are shivering (…), it’s winter and the fascists are demonstrating with their arms outstretched, vociferous, threatening everyone, and especially those who don’t have in their eyes not the right skin color or hair quality. » Jean-Luc Mélenchon let his prose speak on France Inter to demonstrate his “immense disgust” at the ultra-right gatherings in France in recent days.
A gathering called by a small ultra-right group (Les Natifs) in tribute to young Thomas killed during a village festival in Drôme brought together around 200 people on Friday evening at Place du Panthéon in Paris, where he could be held after the suspension of the prefectural ban order. “How is it that there are organizations in our country that can attack people, make public acts of racism, that can make Nazi salutes and the rest? », asked the leader of LFI. “We know who these people are,” he insisted, “it’s a reconstitution of a dissolved league.”
“There are ten of us living under death threats” at LFI
For him, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin “did nothing. The Generation Identity group was dissolved and reconstituted. How is it that these people are able to organize a demonstration of this nature, that’s the real problem.” However, he refused to criticize the administrative court’s decision, recalling that the courts had been able to “authorize”, “at the last minute” certain “demonstrations in defense of the population of Gaza” which had been subject to a prefectural ban.
“We say sometimes in left-wing demonstrations there is violence, but it is violence against property and beyond the will of the organizers,” he also noted. Finally, he stressed that the rebels paid “dearly for this form of trivialization of the extreme right”, stressing that he had “been the subject of two assassination attempts”. “There are ten of us living under death threats, and three were attacked in the street,” he added.