Olivier Véran gets carried away against Jean-Luc Mélenchon and rebellious France. The government spokesman denounced, on Monday, the attitude of LFI after the violence in Sainte-Soline this weekend or in the mobilizations against the pension reform.
“Jean-Luc Mélenchon, he is rebellious in the face of police violence, but he is submissive in the face of all other forms of violence, and you know why? Because Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his friends are the rentiers of anger, the rentiers of the misery of the little people and they are the shareholders of these forms of violence, ”attacked the minister on BFMTV and RMC. He accused them of being “prepared to undermine our institutions for the causes they serve”.
A protester between life and death
He judged “unacceptable” and “irresponsible” the participation, on Saturday, in the prohibited demonstration in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres), against the megabasins, of elected officials “essentially from the far left, wearing the scarf”, who “explain that the problem [des violences], it’s the police”, despite the “presence of hundreds of people who come from abroad to break the police”, according to him. A demonstrator is between life and death after violent clashes with the police, for which authorities and organizers reject responsibility against a background of opposition to a project to retain water.
“It is not an offense to participate in a prohibited demonstration, everyone makes their choice, I think the cause is just”, replied on RTL the deputy Clémence Guetté, who was one of the elected LFI present on Saturday. “Without the Brav-Ms, without this circus, absolutely nothing would happen other than a walk in the fields”, had criticized on Twitter the leader of LFI, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
“We respect the institutions, where some try to attack them, sometimes with petanque balls, sometimes with angry tweets or sometimes with happenings in the hemicycle, with a continuum between the violence expressed in the Assembly national and that which can be found in the street”, lamented Olivier Véran.