During the Huma festival, organized in Plessis-Pâté, in Essonne, Fabien Roussel urged his activists to take action on Saturday morning to protest against the absence of effective measures to fight inflation.
“I urgently ask for a plan against the high cost of living in salaries and pensions. This is the true emergency of this return to classes. Either they act or we take measures,” insisted the national secretary of the Communist Party (PCF). , haranguing the crowd.
According to him, an immediate reduction in the price of gasoline under the direction of the government is necessary, as well as the application of taxes on super profits.
“Operation Robin Hood”
The candidate for the 2022 presidential elections also gave his support to Sébastien Menesplier, general secretary of the CGT mining and energy union.
The latter is suspected of having participated in power cuts during demonstrations against pension reform at the beginning of the year. He was summoned on September 6 by the Montmorency gendarmerie. “A shame,” according to Fabien Roussel.
“I propose to personally participate in an operation ‘Robin Hood’ and spend the off-peak hours supplying electricity to a hospital, a maternity ward or an HLM. Let them all come and arrest us. We are Robin Hood,” the communist continued.
Roussel increases calls for mobilization
This intervention by Fabien Roussel occurs a few days after he called, in Humanity from September 13, to demonstrations in front of prefectures – to “invade them even if necessary” – such as gas stations and supermarkets.
“A question of legitimate defense,” according to him, given the inaction of the President of the Republic and the Government in a context of high cost of living.
His position has drawn much attention on the left, particularly on Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s side. In
“Should I apologize for calling demonstrations in front of the prefectures? People are crumbling under the weight of electricity bills, gasoline bills, shopping cart bills. They are crushed by rising prices. We are doing it. The election to be at their side to repair these injustices,” the Northern deputy said on Saturday.
Although she clarified that her departures had been approved within her party, the president of the communist group in the Senate, Eliane Assassi, distanced herself from her comments about the prefectures at the beginning of the weekend in the columns of Spot.
Source: BFM TV
