Emmanuel Macron called this Sunday “the republican forces” to “redouble their vigilance” in the face of an “even more burning” and “creeping” anti-Semitism than 20 years ago, in a speech in Pithiviers (Loiret) commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Rafle du Vel d’Hiv.
“Neither Pétain, nor Laval, nor Bousquet, nor Darquier de Pellepoix, none of them wanted to save Jews. It is a falsification of history to say so”, also hammered the head of state, considering that “those who indulge in these lies have the project of destroying the Republic and the unity of the nation”.