A road trip to Bruno Retailleau? In a position of force in the government and in the pole position to become the president of the Republicans, the Minister of the Interior is the objective of the criticisms of his own camp after the murder of Abubakar Cissé, a twenty -year -old Malian, killed in a GARD mosque this Friday. In question: the time it took to go there.
If the tenant of the Beauvau place reacted immediately on social networks, denouncing an act of “barbaric violence”, therefore, it took more than 48 hours to move to the place of the drama. However, the former head of Senators LR is used to occupying the field, from Mulhouse’s attack in February to a knife attack on Thursday in a high school in Nantes.
“You had to go immediately”
The Tempo awakens the astonishment even more, the profile of the suspicious wanted, now in the hands of the Italian police, was particularly worrying.
“I am intimately convinced that it was necessary to go immediately,” said the president of the Hauts-de-France region, Xavier Bertrand, this Monday morning in BFMTV, however, Bruno Retailleau’s support in the race for the presidency LR.
“The Interior Minister is also the Adoration Minister, I had the opportunity to remind him,” he insisted on the regional elected official.
Wauquiez feuds in the fortress
Under the pressure of his camp, Interior Minister had chosen these words carefully on Sunday in front of the Gard Muslim community. The sixties talked about “a compassion for Abubakar Cissé”, this dead young man “in absolutely ignorable conditions”, while “praying to his God.”
Enough to extinguish the criticism of the law? In the Laurent Wauquiez camp, its competitor to take the head of the LRS, does not exist in any case to point out the overloaded agenda of the minister to explain this delay in the ignition.
If Bruno Retilleau did not go to the attack scene in the mosque on Friday, he was unemployed in the hours that followed, praying the lands of the Auverne-Rhône-Alpes region, feud of his competitor.
Visit of a police station in Bourg-en-Bresse (AIN), Public Meeting with LR Activists to Stone Shots, inauguration of a Gendarmerie Barracks, a second meeting with members near Chambéry (Savoie) …
“However, he was just two hours from the mosque. He shows that one cannot be the Minister of the Interior and at the same time candidate for the presidency of LR. He made a big mistake,” Tance, near Laurent Wauquiez.
A double cap difficult to assume
For weeks, the entourage of the president of the deputies of the Law, who fight in the internal race, judges that Bruno Retailleau’s double limit is impossible for the mission. In particular question: the issue of availability in this ministry where urgency is permanent.
“We never doubted to cancel a campaign displacement if he hit his agenda,” he defended a relative from Bruno Retilleau in early April.
With an example of support: its presence for a tribute to Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénés) for pays tribute to the Crs killed during a rescue operation On April 8, instead of a meeting with LR activists in Mont-de-Marsan (Landes).
“This time, I did not want to cancel one day in the lands of Laurent Wauquiez, which has 20% of LR members throughout France. It is not more complicated, but I understand that we regret this slowness,” analyzes a chosen LR, quite neutral in the field.
“What matters is that in the end he went to know the religious community on the spot. We are really in a controversy with two sous,” he tries to trivialize the deputy Lr Julien Dive, support of Bruno Retailleau.
Different precedents
In the ranks of Macronie, now an ally with LR within the government, we do not push each other anymore to defend the Interior Minister.
“I find that he has favored his candidate’s cap instead of the Minister of Worship,” laments the vice president and former spokesman for the Prisca Thévenot government.
Obviously worried about closing the questions, the government spokeswoman, Sophie Primas, defended her colleague this Monday at noon. “We are in a country that likes the controversy,” said the one who was one of Bruno Retailleau’s relatives when he was a senator. “There was no delay” in his reaction, Sophie Primas defended.
“What surprises me anyway is that no one is pushing to defend it, including their relatives. We can feel that there is an discomfort,” observes a macronie pillar in the National Assembly.
“That there may be failures in Algeria, in irregular immigration, it is one thing. But there, we are in the field of values. It says something about man.”
On the left, many were the political leaders who denounced the attitude of Bruno Retailleau, such as the head of the rebel Manuel Bompard or the leader of the communists Fabien Roussel who denounced “two points two measures depending on whether we are dealing with an anti -Semitic crime or a crime against a Muslim.”
Source: BFM TV
