It is a document that will be crucial for the continuation of events. During the night from Thursday to Friday, the report of the National Assembly was updated and what was said in the hemicycle of the Palais Bourbon during the session of Questions to the government on November 3, 2022 is revealed.
This session was interrupted a few seconds after a racist incident, where RN Grégoire de Fournas launched “let him go back to Africa” in the hemicycle while the rebel deputy Carlos Martens Bilongo asked the government a question.
In an email sent to Carlos Martens Bilongo, the parliamentarian of the National Grouping said “sorry” that the elected LFI “could be hurt” by these statements, but does not apologize.
“The complete report is not word for word but the transposition into written language of the oral interventions. The speakers have three days to request a possible rectification of form”, specifies the site of the National Assembly.
two arrests
In its latest provisional version established at 02:11 am, the minutes of the meeting indicate that the deputy RN Grégoire de Fournas effectively cut Carlos Martens Bilongo’s question regarding the rescue operations carried out by the “Ocean Viking”.
The deputy of the National Association launches first “they are smugglers!” while the rebel parliamentarian evokes various associations in support of migrants.
Carlos Martens Bilongo continues and, while evoking “the absolute emergency situation” in which the people rescued on the Ocean Viking find themselves, Grégoire de Fournas interrupts him again.
“Go back to Africa!” Launches the elected member of the National Group. “No way !” Carlos Martens Bilongo responds immediately.
The report indicates that the first “loud cheers” are made in the seats of the LFI, PS, EELV and GDR groups (where PCF deputies sit) before they spread to the seats of the Renaissance, MoDem and Horizons groups. and LIOT.
“It’s racism!”
“Madam President! It’s a scandal,” first responds Erwan Balanant, a deputy for MoDem. “It’s racism!” Chosen rebel Sophia Chikirou abounds. The president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, asks “who is the deputy who has just pronounced this sentence”, before “reviewing the seats of the RN”.
As she had already explained on the set of BFMTV, the RN parliamentarian Laure Lavalette affirms that her colleague “was talking about the boat”. Several left-wing deputies stand up and chant “Out”, reports the minutes, before Yaël Braun-Pivet suspends the session.
Various possible penalties
Given the outcry caused by the departure of Grégoire de Fournas, Yaël Braun-Pivet indicated that this Friday at 2:30 p.m. “will be mentioned in the office of the National Assembly, which is the only body capable of pronouncing more serious sanctions.”
Many elected officials have already called for the RN parliamentarian to be “censored with temporary exclusion,” the maximum level of sanction provided for by the National Assembly’s regulations.
Under the Fifth Republic, censorship with temporary expulsion was pronounced onlyonce, against deputy Maxime Gremetz on March 16, 2011confirms to BFMTV the General Secretariat of the National Assembly.
Source: BFM TV
