The words of the former spokesperson for La France Insoumise on BFMTV once again demonstrate the political and moral decline of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party. The off-season is here.
In mid-November, media attention is divided. Six years later, we commemorate the attacks of November 13, 2015 (130 dead); we simultaneously cover the trial of these attacks, which is still ongoing. Finally, Éric Zemmour, putative candidate for the 2022 presidential election, obsesses a good number of media, whether critical or laudatory.
Cited at the trial as a witness on November 10, the former President of the Republic François Hollande declared: “We knew there were operations brewing, individuals mingling with refugee flows, leaders in Syria. We knew all that.” A golden opportunity for Zemmour, who attacked frontally two days later: “The former President of the Republic said himself that he knew that terrorists would be infiltrated among the migrants and he did not stop the flow of migrants (…). So François Hollande did not protect the French and made a criminal decision to leave the borders open.”
Surprising words…
Invited to BFMTV on November 14, Raquel Garrido criticizes Zemmour’s accusations and makes surprising remarks : “This is […] indecent. We are still in a judicial process, a reparation process, which is a peaceful modality in a civilization, well, civilized” (sic).
To read also, Aurélien Marq: Zemmour at the Bataclan: the good and the bad meditation
For the former lawyer of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the families of the victims “made immeasurable efforts to participate in the trial, to find in themselves the strength […] to find the way to reconciliation, including with the terrorists themselves, and the people who are being prosecuted”.
We would like to hear on this point the families of the victims themselves.
… stemming from a misguided Christian humanism
Observers of French political life will not be surprised by such declarations from a person evolving in the wake of Mélenchon. Tempted to see in Muslim voters the new proletariat exploited by French-style secularism, LFI and its supporters do not hesitate to make shocking statements, a mixture of clientelist cynicism and misguided Christian humanism. Difficult to believe in the words of Mélenchon affirming that his party “is not Islamo-leftist”, he who regularly plays on the victimization of Muslims.
To read also, Didier Desrimais: Good loser, Sandrine Rousseau puts herself at the service of Yannick Jadot (on Twitter)
Raquel Garrido’s comments are in fact the simple reflection of a paternalistic and idealistic current of ideas, in which reconciliation with one’s neighbor is a goal naturally shared by all, France as well as those who proclaim themselves its enemies. According to her, justice is not intended to render justice but to “repair” in a “peaceful” way. And Ms. Garrido is convinced that the whole world has the same reading grid as her: “Make love, not war”!
It’s fall !
Finally, this controversy gave us to see a classic late-season landscape: Jean-Luc Mélenchon is the invasive weed that prevents young LFI shoots from growing; Éric Zemmour is the yellowing oak firmly rooted in his strong convictions; finally, Raquel Garrido demonstrates once again that autumn is indeed the season when acorns fall.
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