“Obvious provocation”, “shame on them”, and the now very classic “exit from the republican field” … The right and the majority were spoiled for choice of words, Saturday and Sunday, to condemn the elected left-wingers present at the rally banned in memory of Adama Traoré. Several elected officials present at the march noted that “participating in a prohibited demonstration is not illegal”. “The provocation is obvious (…), it is double when you are an elected representative of the Republic”, criticized Aurore Bergé, the president of the Renaissance group at the Palais-Bourbon.
“I am appalled to see elected officials of the Nation, sporting the tricolor scarf, mute and smiling while hearing demonstrators chant “everyone hates the police”, tweeted Sunday the Renaissance President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun. -Pivet. A dozen elected LFI and EELV were present and denounced the behavior of certain members of the police, in particular during the muscular arrest of one of Adama’s brothers, Youssouf.
Eric Ciotti targets “the factious and dangerous deputies of the Nupes”
In the context of the riots which followed the death of Nahel, 17, during a police check, “the banning of the Adama march was a provocation”, estimated Sunday the leader of the rebellious deputies, Mathilde Panot, present at the gathering. The elected Val-de-Marne felt that her place was “alongside the family” Traoré, urging “an overhaul of the police from the cellar to the attic”. “It was very important that this pacifist march take place, I went there to protect people” from possible police violence, commented the ecologist deputy Sandrine Rousseau.
The bosses of the right, who since the riots outbid security proposals sometimes in phase with the far right, are also upwind. “The factious and dangerous deputies of Nupes (…) have once again trampled on our laws and the authority of the State. Unbearable,” tweeted Republican boss Eric Ciotti. “Shame on them”, launched the boss of LR senators, Bruno Retailleau.
The anti-Mélenchon left also reacted. “If the left wants to be audible in denouncing the excesses of part of the police and the role of the RN (…) it must avoid caricature, excess. The left must be republican, not populist ”, commented the number 2 of the PS Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol. “When La France insoumise does not condemn the violence, it justifies it. When they say that certain buildings should not be set on fire, they mean that for others it doesn’t matter. They came out of the Republican field”, hammered Saturday in The Parisian Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.