“It is time to wake up collectively”, so “that the electoral campaign is not blackened by lies and hypocrisy”, write this Thursday ten elected officials of large cities in a column published on the website of World, accusing the far-right polemicist Eric Zemmour of being “at the head” of “media predation”.
“We are calling for a popular uproar. Simplistic and deceptive reasoning will not save anyone, ”they say, saying“ dismayed by the cartoonish debates that have been unfolding before our eyes for several weeks ”.
These ten signatories are the PS mayor of Rennes Nathalie Appéré, the PS mayor of Montpellier Michaël Delafosse, the PS mayor of Nancy Mathieu Klein, the PS mayor of Périgueux Delphine Labails, the PS mayor of Nantes Johanna Rolland, the mayor Horizons of Reims Arnaud Robinet, the mayor Les Centristes d’Arras Frédéric Leturque, the LR mayor of Toulouse Jean-Luc Moudenc, the LR mayor of Saint-Etienne Gabriel Perdriau and the LR president of Greater Reims Catherine Vautrin.
“His model is” 1984 “, by George Orwell”
“Mr. Zemmour’s will is very clear. He said it himself: his model is 1984, by George Orwell. He wants to control the past to control spirits, ”they warn.
They thus alert on the fact that he “uses” the History of France “without hesitating to lie” to “revisit the problems of today and make believe, powerless on the answers, that the solutions are easy. “.
“Real France is diverse”
These ten mayors contrast their experience in the “field” – not “social dinners” – to emphasize their knowledge of “real France” and “demand that we finally talk about her”.
Referring to the polemicist’s remarks on women, they accuse him of “refusing (r) his chance to half of France” and asking: “why think he will stop there? “.
“Real France is diverse,” they add, and “France has no official first name”, they continue, after the controversy over first names born from the statements of Eric Zemmour.
“Real France is not the France of Vichy”, they also emphasize: “Our country knows that Philippe Pétain betrayed it. “