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The precise circumstances of the tragedy have not yet been completely established, but the police’s investigations largely weaken the biased narrative relayed with relish by the extreme right and those who speak like it. Pascal Praud has difficulty digesting it.
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It is rare, regarding a news item, for the far right in general and CNews in particular to so vigorously brush aside an investigation by the gendarmes whose work they usually readily praise. It must be said that in the Crépol tragedy, where young Thomas lost his life, certain (ir)political leaders and a number of very unscrupulous commentators were quick to take action. Faster than music, to bring this tragic episode into their reading grid: that of a punitive expedition with hints of ethnic war between young people from the cities “wild” and young rugby players “from home”. Two Frances face to face and irreconcilable, concluded the most ideologues.
Faced with the revelations of Parisian, who had access to the first investigations of the gendarmes, Pascal Praud, the mountebank of CNews and Europe 1, castigated early Tuesday morning on the Bolloré group’s TV channel the fact that “the rewriting of the murder of Thomas in Crépol is underway”. And he targeted the evil work of “system”,