Two days after the assassination of a teacher in Arras by a radicalized former student, it is time to take stock. On the set of BFM TV, the deputy for the Somme, potential LFI candidate for the 2027 presidential election François Ruffin affirmed that it was necessary to “target without amalgamating”. “The enemy is Islamist terrorism […] We must target those who cause harm to the Republic”, before specifying that the family of the Arras attacker, well known to the intelligence services, “should no longer be in France”.
In addition to the expulsion for radicalization of the father of the siblings to Russia in 2018, the elder brother of the attacker was sentenced a few months ago to five years in prison for his involvement in a planned attack targeting the Élysée and for apologizing for terrorism. “When the CV is of this nature, yes, there is no doubt for me that it is the high end of the spectrum of radicalization,” noted François Ruffin. The Arras attacker “was seen the day before by the DGSI. I would like us to investigate a little more and find out if there was a flaw or not. Was the follow-up of good quality? That raises questions,” said rebellious MP Clémentine Autain, for her part, to the RTL-Le Figaro-M6-Paris Première Grand Jury.
The expulsion desired by Darmanin is debated
Is Place Bauvau’s decision really the right one? On Saturday, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin called for the systematic expulsion of all foreigners on Saturday […] considered dangerous by the intelligence services. On the side of environmentalists, Sandrine Rousseau stressed on radio J that expulsion was “not the answer to everything”.
This is “too simple a way of posing the problem. In addition, he (Gérald Darmanin, Editor’s note.) knows that he is not capable of doing it.” On the other hand, according to her, it is necessary to increase the staff of the S file monitoring service.
“A political mistake”
Insoumise France has been at the center of controversies since the unprecedented attack launched on October 7 by Hamas against Israel, certain leaders of the movement, first and foremost Jean-Luc Mélenchon, having refused to directly qualify the Palestinian Islamist organization as ” terrorist.” François Ruffin did not hesitate to use this term.
Clémentine Autain repeated on Sunday that her party had committed a “political mistake” by refusing to speak of “terrorist”. “I tell you straight in the eye, at La France insoumise, no one supports Hamas,” she added.
Strongly condemn
François Ruffin asked Emmanuel Macron to “call for a ceasefire” in the Middle East. “I condemned from the very first moments the massacres committed by Hamas, but we must not be half-blind,” he said, as Israel continues its preparations for a ground offensive in the north of the Gaza Strip in response to the attack by the Islamist organization.
“The right to defend one’s security is not the right to blind violence,” said Clémentine Autain. “Israel has engaged in a chain of war crimes,” she assured.