An attack worthy of “the far right”, according to the president of the League of Human Rights (LDH). Patrick Baudouin declared himself Wednesday “revolted” by the “amalgam” of Elisabeth Borne. “I have a lot of respect for what the LDH has embodied. I no longer understand some of his positions, ”declared the Prime Minister before the Senate during the session of questions to the government. “This misunderstanding (…) emerged in its ambiguities in the face of radical Islamism. And it has been consolidated for a few months, ”she added.
Asked by AFP, the president of the LDH said he was “surprised at the distortion” of the position of the association founded in 1898. “The amalgam that Madame Borne makes me bristles and revolts me. This is the fight that I have led almost all my life”, reacted Patrick Baudouin, calling on the Prime Minister to “appease the debate and not make things worse. “” I do not impugn her intentions but I find that she gives in to little sirens who make her slip into words that are not acceptable to us (…) I know it’s a little music which runs on the side of some of our adversaries located rather on the right, even on the extreme right”, underlined Patrick Baudouin.
Proposal for a public debate
The head of government also recalled that the LDH had recently “attacked a decree prohibiting the transport of weapons by destination to Sainte-Soline” (Deux-Sèvres), place of clashes between demonstrators opposed to megabasins (water reservoirs) and law enforcement. In this regard, the president of the association underlined that the LDH did not call into question the ban on the carrying of weapons but contested the definition chosen, which ignored the case law of the Constitutional Council refusing the extension a priori of the notion weapon to any object that can be used as a projectile.
“I wrote to Ms. Borne to ask her for an appointment. I am ready for a public debate, to expose, to exchange, possibly in relation to the criticisms that are made of us, ”he added. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, during hearings before Parliament last week, had declared that “the subsidy given by the State” to the LDH “deserves to be looked at within the framework of the actions which could be carried out”. It had caused an uproar on the left.