“Go back to Africa!” “The arrest emanates from the RN benches, in the midst of the intervention of LFI deputy Carlos Martens Bilongo on the “drama of illegal immigration”. After a few minutes of confusion, the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet ended the session “given the seriousness of the facts” and “the legitimate emotion” in the hemicycle. Left-wing and majority elected officials attributed the arrest to deputy RN Grégoire de Fournas. “Racism has no place in our democracy,” reacted Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.
“Today the far right has shown its true face,” said Mathilde Panot, president of the LFI group in the Assembly. “Here is the RN party of civil war and racism”, denounces Jean-Luc Melenchon, which calls for “the forfeiture and exclusion of the insulter”. “The office of the Assembly will meet and naturally will have to take the necessary sanctions”, announced Elisabeth Borne at the exit of the hemicycle.