The session was suspended on Thursday, November 3, while Grégoire de Fournas was suspected of having attacked Carlos Martens Bilongo because of his skin color.
The ushers of the National Assembly have decided. Thursday, November 3, the session was abruptly interrupted at the end of the afternoon while the LFI-Nupes deputy Carlos Martens Bilongo questioned the government about a boat transporting migrants in the Mediterranean. Before being cut off by the intervention of an elected RN, Grégoire de Fournas, suspected of having targeted his colleague because of the color of his skin.
The minutes of the meeting show the exchanges and the exact sentence uttered by the deputy of the RN: “Let him go back to Africa!Who or what was he talking about? Marine Le Pen’s group published a press release yesterday, indicating that Grégoire de Fournas, in pronouncing this sentence, was aiming “the boat carrying migrants to Europeand not the member for Nupes. “The controversy created by our political adversaries is crude and will not deceive the French“, Later declared Marine Le Pen on Twitter.
An explanation that the deputies of the Nupes have firmly rejected, the latter attesting to having heard “Return to Africa“. “Racism always catches up with us, even in the most prestigious places of the Republic“Said Carlos Martens Bilongo in a statement. For its part, the troops of the presidential camp also expressed their strong emotion. “Racism has no place in our democracy”said Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, when Emmanuel Macron said to himself “uneven” by “intolerable words”, according to those around him. The office of the National Assembly must decide today on a possible sanction incurred by the deputy RN.