“Shame”, “abject”, “nausea”: a tweet from the leader of the LFI deputies Mathilde Panotaccusing Emmanuel Macron in particular of having “honored Pétain” in 2018, arouses a volley of indignant reactions in the majority on the day of the commemorations of the Roundup of the Vel d’Hiv.
“80 years ago, the collaborationists of the Vichy regime organized the Rafle du Vel d’Hiv. Do not forget these crimes, today more than ever, with a President of the Republic who honors Pétain and 89 RN deputies, ”tweeted the leader of the LFI deputies Mathilde Panot on Saturday. In 2018, Emmanuel Macron called Pétain “a great soldier during the First World War, even if he then “led disastrous choices”.
“No limit in indecency”
And on Sunday afternoon, the Head of State commemorates in Pithiviers (Loiret) the 80th anniversary of the Rafle du Vel d’Hiv by inaugurating, in the company of survivors, a new place of memory in the old station of the city. . Ceremony to which elected officials from the National Rally were also invited, by republican tradition, detailed the Elysée, without specifying whether they would be present. The Minister responsible for Transport, Clément Beaune, called on Mathilde Panot to withdraw her tweet and to present “her apologies to France, quickly”. “Beyond Shame. We dare not believe it, ”he reacted on the same social network.
Relaying this call to withdraw the controversial tweet, Renaissance MP Prisca Thévenot said on CNews on Sunday that LFI had “succeeded in winning the palm of the abject, the unworthy”. “Instrumentalize the Shoah without writing the word “Jew”, after having voted several amendments with the RN. LFI is no longer an ideological contortion. It is unworthy of the memory of the victims, it is a daughter of hidden children who tells you so, ”wrote ex-minister Emmanuelle Wargon on Twitter.
For the RDPI senator with a majority En Marche Julien Bargeton, “it is not a slippage. It is the consequence of the systematic attitude consisting in making any subject an occasion of conflict, without respect for the memory or the Republic”. ” What a shame ! “, “Nausea”, “No limit in indecency”, reacted again respectively the ministers Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, Isabelle Rome and Olivier Dussopt. The hashtag #PanotDemission was trending on Twitter this Sunday morning.