The extremes of the hemicycle were in the sharp sight of Eric Dupond-Moretti on Tuesday. And the Minister of Justice “does not regret anything”. During the session of questions to the government, the Keeper of the Seals pointed the finger at “the far right” but especially “the far left” and a recent proposal, signed by around forty elected leftists who condemn the “regime of apartheid” of Israel against the Palestinians, “an institutionalized regime of oppression and systematic domination by a single racial group”. The text had recently caused controversy and provoked a series of condemnations of associations.
Manuel Bompard, who is not a signatory of the resolution, demanded an apology from Elisabeth Borne and Eric Dupond-Moretti on Wednesday morning on RFI, “because we cannot utter against a part of the national representation of the accusations of anti-Semitism”, this “without any fact: no person from LFI has ever been suspected, convicted, prosecuted, for anti-Semitic remarks or acts”, he argued.
The LFI deputy from Marseille also urged the Minister of Justice on Wednesday, “if he considers that there are anti-Semites in the National Assembly”, to “bring them before the courts”, because anti-Semitism is not “not an opinion but a crime”.
“I don’t regret my words and what I said, I said it in the hemicycle (…) No, I don’t regret anything I said,” insisted the former lawyer later. , questioned by journalists during a press briefing on the sidelines of a trip to the Baumettes prison in Marseille.
They rise and they break
He shouted down “the far left” on Tuesday: “(Jeremy) Corbyn (ed.: the former British Labor leader expelled from his parliamentary group, accused of laxity against anti-Semitism), apartheid, the words you have chosen to comment on the speech of the President of the Republic, these words stick to your skin”, causing the angry departure of the hemicycle of Nupes deputies.
Used by local NGOs and Human Rights Watch (HRW), the term “apartheid” was taken up in February by Amnesty International to qualify Israel’s policy towards the Palestinians, treated as an “inferior racial group” according to this human rights organization whose remarks were castigated by the Jewish state. He also accused the government of “using this accusation as a kind of paralyzing ray to disqualify this or that political formation. »
The Insoumis Aymeric Caron had also asked for an “apology” from Elisabeth Borne on Tuesday after she had estimated, by targeting LFI, that being a Republican “is not the case for everyone on these benches” of the ‘Assembly.