If the traditional Parisian parade of May 1 were better than one could fear “according to Brunoinleau Interior Minister, the violence still sank the demonstration in Paris.
The Socialist Party deplored that it was “attacked by black blockages” during the demonstration. Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau told BFMTV that four PS members were slightly injured.
Among the supporters of the PS directed is the deputy of Essonne Jérôme Guys, particularly annoying while he was in the Boulevard of L’Hôpital, near the place of Italie. The first secretary of PS Olivier Foure announced that “complaints are underway” after this attack.
On the right and the left, several political figures supported the socialist deputy director and the members of the victims of PS of this violence. The general secretary of the party Pierre Jouvet brought “everything (s) everything we support the socialist comrades taken violently for Target.”
On the left, the National Secretary of Ecologists Marine Tondelier wrote in x That “socialists have their place in manifestations, not in violence.”
Bruno Retailleau says his “support”
Still to the left, the Eurodiputa France Insoveumise Manon Aubry explained in BFMTV that “you will never find us on the side of the violent.” “Violence has never been our method,” he argued in a tense exchange with the socialist Eurodiputa Emma Rafowicz, who claims to have been affected by this violence. The latter addressed Manon Aubry to the role of his group in this episode.
“It is no longer credible, your speeches in your heart, first insult us and then condemn when others violate us,” said the socialist Eurodiput.
“Do you have evidence? When did you rebel the slightest form of violence?” He informed Manon Auby to him. A discussion also advanced by the national coordinator of the party of Manuel Bompard. “Violence has never been part of our methods of action. We do not agree with the fact that we are solving political disagreements like that,” he wrote in X.
The Renaissance party shared on their social networks “his solidarity with the elected officials and the members of the Socialist Party, and in particular to the deputy Jérôme Groedj”.
Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau also shared his “support” for socialist activists “attacked by” particularly hostile and violent protesters. “I mean all my support,” he wrote in X.
In the extreme right, the spokesman of the National Rally Group in the National Assembly Laure Lavalette “firmly condemned the aggression of the PS -elected officials and activists for their allies and friends of the extreme left.” Deputy Rn Franck Allisio also declared in BFMTV that his party “condemns” the violence that scored the Parisian parade.
At the end of the night, the Interior Minister announced that 72 people were arrested throughout France, including 52 in Paris. The CGT claims more than 300,000 protesters for May 1, against 157,000 according to the authorities.
Source: BFM TV
