Comments abounded. Since Wednesday evening, exchanges have been lively in the Nantes political sphere and even beyond, after a message posted on social networks. On the first page of this press release signed Nantes en Commun (movement supported by LFI during the municipal election), the mayor of Nantes Johanna Rolland (PS) and the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin (LREM) appear in a photo with this title: “Do we all have a beautiful, slightly racist mayor? Rolland ranks behind Darmanin by linking immigration and insecurity. »
A reaction to the security announcements made by the city councilor and the minister a few days ago, which therefore did not please the far left movement, calling them a “package of ineffective, inappropriate, racist measures (…)” . After the episodes of violence that recently affected the City of the Dukes, the State decided to permanently assign 80 CRS there. The town hall, for its part, will create 50 municipal police stations, and increase the number of cameras.
An administrative detention center will be created for Loire-Atlantique, they also announced jointly. Johanna Rolland “thus makes a direct link between the various facts of the past weeks – shootings against the backdrop of drug trafficking and rape – and immigration”, considers today Nantes in common.
Support from all sides
Since the publication of this message, the critics fuse. “Politics does not authorize everything! Words have meaning! It’s the whole story of my commitment that is insulted here. Angry. Disgusted, ”said the first concerned on Twitter. “Scandalous”, “ignominy”, “shameful”… Many members of the Rolland clan have spoken, including socialist personalities like Julien Dray. “When leftism goes mad…, he writes. In Nantes, heinous accusations against the Mayor Mrs. Rolland. »
But support came from all sides among elected Nantes officials, from the right and from La République en Marche. “This Insoumis campaign is unworthy of the Republican debate. These insults towards Gérald Darmanin and Johanna Rolland are unacceptable. Full support for them in the face of this odious defamation”, writes for example Mounir Belhamiti, deputy En Marche.
Very critical of the announcements in terms of security and in particular that relating to the administrative detention center, the elected environmentalists, members of the municipal majority, also wanted to support Johanna Rolland, this Thursday morning. “We have a strong disagreement with the security proposal proposed in Nantes. The utterance of insult is not up to the debate, racism is a crime, too many inhabitants suffer from it, we condemn this insinuation. »