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Nicolas Sarkozy criticizes the “partisan uprising and social violence” of those who want to “ignite fires of hatred and discord everywhere”

“Whenever the Republic has sown division, it has fallen from its heights like bad fruit,” said the former president.

“The Republic is an ideal of harmony”, said Monday January 20, former President Nicolas Sarkozy, worrying about “scenes of violence” of the last few months and lambasting those who try to light “hate fires everywhere”. “The French Republic is not the scenes of violence that we have been witnessing for months”, he launched during a greeting ceremony for number 2 of the Republicans, Guillaume Peltier, in Romorantin-Lanthenay (Loir-et-Cher).

In front of a room of a thousand people, he warned: “What is no longer expressed in the republican framework necessarily turns into partisan uprising and social violence”, and vilified “those who damage” the idea of ​​republic “trying to light fires of hatred and discord everywhere”.

Recalling that the Republic had “found its place in the hearts of the French from the moment when it is synonymous with security, harmony, civil peace”, he warned: “each time the Republic sowed division, it fell from its height like a bad fruit”. The former head of state also said “worried about the indifference which is gradually taking hold in our country, the abstention, the anti-parliamentary system and the hatred of the other”.

“Communitarianism and the spirit of a clan are harmful to France, and to say that is to love France, he launched to the applause, ensuring that “to challenge the identity of France is to challenge France itself”. “I would like us not to confuse equal rights and egalitarianism” who “only creates injustice”, he added.

The former head of state, withdrawn from politics, assured him: “My duty is to give back to the French people a little of all that they gave me by participating, in my place which is necessarily different, throughout our country”. “I have to concentrate a lot not to go further, but it would not be good”he said, raising a few laughs.

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