For Martin Luther King Jr’s family, it doesn’t happen. After his condemnation of five years of inelegability with the immediate request for embezzlement of public funds, Marine Le Pen had summoned the name of Martin Luther King on April 6.
“Our fight (…) will be (…) a peaceful fight, a democratic fight. We will take the example of Martin Luther King, who defended civil rights,” said the leader of the right of the file. Marine Le Pen went to the video call to the leader of the party of the Farm of Far Italiano, Matteo Salvini.
“His efforts have inspired generations of Americans”
But the American family, emblematic defender of civil rights, denounces to BFMTV.com an “attempt to distort or establish false equivalences with the struggle of Dr. King for civil rights.”
“This constitutes an inappropriate distortion of history and undermines the sacrifices made by those who opposed hate and fought for justice,” said Martin Luther King III and Andrea Waters King, Martin Luther King Jr and his wife’s son.
“His efforts have inspired generations of Americans and have opened the way to create their vision of a” dear community “, a society based on the unit instead of the division”, recall that they point out that their “inheritance” remains “unparalleled.”
Martin Luther King Jr, civil rights activist in the United States, was killed on April 4, 1968 in Memphis by a white segregationist. The activist used non -violence and civil disobedience to defend their ideas.
Marine Le Pen’s reference to King Martin Luther Jr had reacted to the opponents of the chosen official from afar. For example, the National Coordinator of France Insumise Manuel Bompard had estimated in Franceinfo that it was a “dirty indecency.”
Source: BFM TV
