It is a phrase that makes the left jump. During his lengthy interview with Hugo Décrypte on Monday, Emmanuel Macron referred to the government-imposed ban on the abaya at school. In celebrating this decision, the President of the Republic warned against “people who […] They come to challenge the Republic and secularism”. Before releasing: “We cannot pretend that there was not a terrorist attack and the murder of Samuel Paty in our country.”
Many Nupes elected officials saw it as a cross between wearing the abaya and terrorism. “For Emmanuel Macron, the young women who wear the abaya are suspected of wanting to behead their teachers, right? What are you looking for? Provoking the worst conflicts?” protested, for example, the rebel deputy Jérôme Legavre.
“Macron speaks like Le Pen and Zemmour”
His colleagues Thomas Portes and Antoine Léaument, for their part, considered that the Head of State was taking up the words of the extreme right. “Today the President of the Republic speaks like Le Pen and Zemmour,” wrote the second.
Among the Socialists, First Secretary Olivier Faure denounced a “drift that is as worrying as it is dangerous”, trying incidentally to demonstrate the contradiction between these statements and those of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, who “explains that the ban does not stigmatize anyone”. Similar reactions among environmentalists, summed up in this terse tweet from Sandrine Rousseau: “We are at the heart of the matter: amalgamation.”
Words “at least uncomfortable”
For his part, Emmanuel Macron immediately defended himself from making “a parallel”. “I’m just telling you that the question of secularism in our school is a deep question,” explained the Elysée tenant in particular, before adding shortly after:
“I only remind you that in my first term of five years the worst has happened. So we must not give in.”
It is not enough to convince our political columnist Matthieu Croissandeau, who finds these statements “at least uncomfortable”. “What the president’s statement implies is that there could be a continuum between wearing the abaya and murdering a teacher, which is absolutely delusional for these young women wearing the abaya. Abaya and disrespectful to the memory of teaching either,” he analyzes. on BFMTV.
And to continue: “Let’s agree, we must honor the memory of Samuel Paty, remember, act and do everything possible to prevent such a tragedy from happening again. But perhaps we must also stop citing him at all times. End of field “. Samuel Paty’s name had already been used in the Marianne Fund affair. It’s enough.”
It is true that the government “is right to be intractable” in the face of attacks on secularism”, but “intractable does not mean insulting”, concludes Matthieu Croissandeau.
Source: BFM TV
