LFI deputies Louis Boyard and Carlos Martens Bilongo, whose conference held at Bordeaux Montaigne University was interrupted on Wednesday night by “extreme right-wing activists”, announced to “file a complaint” in a message posted on social media on Thursday .
The two deputies denounce in a video a trivialization of the “violent methods” of the extreme right and also ask the president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, to “initiate legal actions on behalf of the institution against the militants who tried to attack the conference”.
The night before, while they were in an amphitheater, “about twenty hooded individuals, armed with iron bars and uttering racist slogans” had tried to enter the room, according to a press release from the Bordeaux Montaigne University that denounced the events.
The police then intervened “to disperse the agitators” who also wanted to disrupt a play. Both events were able to continue. The night before, “clearly racist labels from Action Française and La Cocarde”, two far-right organizations, had been drawn on the walls of the university, according to the same source.
Darmanin denounces an “unacceptable” action
The two LFI deputies for their part denounced in a press release “a punitive expedition” of “thirty far-right activists” and asked “the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin for a reaction commensurate with the violence of this attack against far-right groups “. “.
“Freedom of expression is a fundamental freedom and what happened is unacceptable,” Gérald Darmanin reacted Thursday morning in a tweet, inviting parliamentarians “to file a complaint if they did not do so.”
Louis Boyard filed a complaint last month for “public insult” against the presenter Cyril Hanouna, accusing him of having “insulted him live for having criticized the owner of his channel (C8, Ed)”, Vincent Bolloré. Carlos Martens Bilongo was present on the rostrum of the National Assembly when the RN deputy for Gironde, Grégoire de Fournas, had launched in the Hemicycle “returning to Africa”, statements that earned him a 15-day exclusion from the lower house.
This case occurs after the opening of an investigation, this Tuesday in Lyon, into the aggression of rebel militants in a neighborhood where the extreme right has been established for a long time.
Source: BFM TV
