“It’s so sad.” Minutes after the arrest of a parliamentarian from the Agrupación Nacional, who said he is “going back to Africa” while LFI deputy Carlos Martens Bilongo was speaking to elected officials of the National Assembly about a stranded migrant boat. in the Mediterranean, the elected official spoke in the corridors of the Bourbon palace.
“Today I referred to the color of the skin,” he said. “I was born in France, I am a French deputy, I did not think today that the National Assembly would insult me.”
“It’s embarrassing, completely embarrassing, to be referred to as your skin color,” she continued. “I am a deputy of the nation, and being insulted is a total shame.”
The “true face” of the RN
Second, the elected official lashed out at the far-right party, whose “we see the true face” after this event.
“Seeing that the president of the RN group does not ask the person who uttered this insult to leave the chamber is shameful,” he insisted, before thanking “the deputies who joined (him)”.
Shortly after this departure of the RN deputy Grégoire De Fournas, and in the face of protests from the chamber, the president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, ended the session of questions to the government. The far-right elect denounces on his part a “manipulation” of La France insoumise, assuring that he was not talking about Carlos Martens Bilongo, but about the migrant ship.
Source: BFM TV
