POLITICS – From Jean-Marie Le Pen in the text. Government spokesperson Sophie Primas regretted this Wednesday, January 8, that gatherings took place to celebrate the death of the co-founder of the National Front rather than in tribute to the victims of the attacks of January 7, 2015. Before citing the figure of the French extreme right on “respect” owed to the dead, despite his actions and words “unacceptable”.
“I know the violence, the excesses and the unacceptable things that were done by Jean-Marie Le Pen. However, the man died today and I will repeat the tweet he made when Jacques Chirac died: ‘Dead, even the enemy has the right to respect’”declared Sophie Primas, questioned after the Council of Ministers on the celebrations observed in several cities in France.
“For having been a Chiraquian, for having fought Jean-Marie Le Pen a lot, I believe that today, dead, he is entitled to respect and his family to republican condolences”she added, as you can see in our video at the top of the article. On September 26, 2019, after the announcement of the death of former president Jacques Chirac, Jean-Marie Le Pen paid tribute in these terms to his lifelong adversary.
Demonstrate for “freedom of expression” rather than for the death of Le Pen
Sophie Primas spoke about the « propos » and the actions “completely unacceptable” of the former leader of the extreme right, returning in particular to “physical attack” of a candidate in the legislative elections of Yvelines in 1997 by “Jean-Marie Le Pen and his teams” while his daughter (Marie-Caroline) was running in the same constituency.
And if she recalled her fight against the founder of the FN, she also felt that it was necessary “sobriety in expression” after the announcement of his death. “I would have liked these demonstrators to find themselves in the street, like 10 years ago, to reiterate their attachment to freedom of expression”that the gatherings are “devoted to the attacks and the support we must provide in the fight against terrorism”declared Sophie Primas.
The day before, the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau also castigated “shameful scenes of jubilation”. « The death of a man, even if he was a political opponent, should inspire only restraint and dignity. he condemned on
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