“A lot of messages of support but also a lot of insults.” In an interview given to Parisianthe deputy La France insoumise (LFI) Carlos Martens Bilongo returns to the racist statements of the deputy of the National Rally (RN) Grégoire de Fournas made against him last Thursday.
The elected leftist confesses that “people from all over the world” have written to him. “I received messages from Australia, the United States, South America, China, Africa,” he explains. “It is an insult that hurts an entire continent, since the African continent is in the spotlight.” Some of the people who approached him “experience racism on a daily basis,” he explains.
“I am a deputy, this scene was captured on video, what if not? It’s word against word and again, what am I? I am indigenous. The word of others is worth one vote and mine 0.5”.
“Great brigades in social networks”
On Thursday, when he asked the Government a question on the issue of immigrants in the Mediterranean, the rebel deputy from Val-d’Oise was interrupted by Grégoire de Fournas who declared “he is going back to Africa”, according to the story -Making the debates available on the website of the National Assembly. The far-right deputy defends himself by alleging that he was not talking about the rebels but about the migrant boat that Carlos Martens Bilongo had mentioned.
always in the parisian, the latter lambastes the reaction of the extreme right. “When the President (of the Assembly, editorial note) asks who said that, these people don’t even have the courage to admit it, because they know it’s very serious. If it was just the boat, I would have said It’s me. Well, no, this man stops”, she says.
And deplore in the process that “since Thursday they are the ones who make the TVs.” In reference to “the great brigades in social networks” of the extreme right, Carlos Martens Bilongo trusts that “on Twitter, by email, [l]’insult of all names’.
Source: BFM TV
