At the start of the week, Christian Estrosi launched a call for citizen gathering for the Republic and against anti-Semitism. 4,000 people respondedthis November 7 at 11:30 a.m., in front of the Théâtre de Verdure.
“We are all Jews this morning”declared Christian Estrosi in front of a crowd of 4,000 people gathered around the Centenary monument, facing the Promenade des Anglais.
The mayor of Nice, and president of the NCA metropolis, called for a massive gathering of Nice citizens on November 9, in a context of an increase in anti-Semitic acts. The representative council of Jewish institutions in South-East France/Corsica (CRIF) joined the demonstration.
“Since the beginning of the 2000s in France, many people have died just because they were Jewish”remember Jerome CulioliMaralpine president of Crif who listed on the microphone the names of victims of anti-Semitism, from Sébastien Selam in 2003 to Mireille Knoll in 2018.
Many political figures were present such as the mayor of Saint-Laurent-du-Var, Joseph Segura, the prefect of Alpes-Maritimes, Hugues Moutouh, the deputy, Philippe Pradal and the senator Dominique Estrosi-Sassone, but also representatives of various cults.
The Insoumis once again in the sights of Christian Estrosi
Opposition elected officials communists to the Zemmourian Reconquest party, climbed onto the platform alongside the mayor, except those who recognize themselves under the label of the Insoumis. An absence that the mayor did not fail to comment on.
He reaffirmed his intransigence towards Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party: “Since October 7, a whole part of France Insoumise has left the republican arc, by sending terrorists and a democracy under attack back to back. » LFI MP Danièle Obono notably described Hamas as “resistance movement” adding controversy to controversy.
“For us, in France, the resistance is personified by Jean Moulin, and I would say that the leader of Hams is rather Klaus Barbie“, repeated Christian Estrosi.
« Anti-Semitic hatred, the bastard daughter of barbaric political Islamism«
Christian Estrosi, accompanied by his wife Laura Tenoudji, was greeted with applause and spoke for around ten minutes. A speech of solidarity with the Jews of the world and severity against those who attack them. He speaks of“an anti-Semitic hatred, the bastard daughter of a barbaric, blind and destructive political Islamism » and which aims to “destroy our Republic”.
During the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, 40 French people died, 8 were kidnapped and remain without news. Since that date, 1,200 anti-Semitic acts were identified on French territory, around sixty in the department, according to the prefect. “They are not the face of the Alpes-Maritimes, of Nice, nor of Cannes, nor of Antibes, nor of Grasse, or of any commune or village in our department”proclaims Hugues Moutouh.
« Our fellow citizens of the Jewish faith are afraid, fears of putting on a yarmulke, fears of putting on a mézouza, fears of walking alone in the street, fears of being recognized as Jewish. They know this fear well, it is the one that their parents, their grandparents, their great-grandparents before them experienced and which they hoped to be able to escape.“, affirms Christian Estrosi, as the Nice cannon sounds noon.
“We are going to fight, we are not going to give up,”
The Marseillaise, followed by the European anthem, was played by a brass band and taken up by the assembly to close this peaceful gathering. Christian Estrosi, very moved, addressed a final word to the crowd, before shaking a few hands: “We are going to fight, we are not going to give up, nothing. » Between the thanks, supporters of the mayor even sang “Estrosi, president!” ».
The mayor of Nice also honored the memory of Jacques Chirac. He was the first president of the Fifth Republic to recognize “the mistakes of the past”or the responsibility of the French state in the deportation and extermination of Jews during the Second World War, during his Vel d’hiv speech in July 1995.
And the Nice councilor recalled having voted for the creation of a branch of the Shoah Memorial in Nice, in the presence of the Klarfels couple, during the Municipal Council on November 7.
Another rally in support of the Jews took place at 3 p.m. in front of the Palace of the Sardinian Kings, in Old Nice. L’association of mayors of the Alpes-Maritimes chaired by Jérôme Viaud, called on all French people to gather in front of each prefecture, to join the civic march organized in Paris, at the initiative of the President of the Senate Gérard Larcher and the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun- Pivet.
Despite the organizers’ request, Christian Estrosi did not want to cancel his morning gathering to merge it with that of the afternoon. There was therefore two rallies against anti-Semitism this November 12 in Nice. The mayor of Nice did not attend the second but was represented by elected officials from his majority.
2023-11-12 23:29:32
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