After the soccer ball decorated with the head of the Minister of Labour, it is an inflatable doll representing the Prime Minister who aroused the anger of the majority. On Saturday, in the Marseillaise march of demonstrations against the pension reform, a staging drew attention.
An inflatable doll, visibly hanging from a gallows, had been placed in the back of a truck. A photograph of Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne had been applied to her face.
“An Incitement to Murder”
Broadcast on social networks, the approach aroused the anger of Emmanuel Macron’s followers, already struck by a tweet from rebel MP Thomas Portes posing with a soccer ball, in which Olivier Dussopt’s head appeared. He was excluded from the Assembly for 15 days for this tweet.
The MEP and secretary general of Renaissance Stéphane Séjourné denounced on Twitter an “abject staging”, “which is neither more nor less than an incitement to murder”.
“Demonstrating is a fundamental right. By inciting hatred or violence, we weaken it and sully our social pact,” he wrote.
The same stern remark by Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau, who mentioned an act “despicable and pushes to crime”. He called on the entire political class not to “minimize” this type of act. Renaud Muselier, president of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region and supporter of Emmanuel Macron, wanted to give his “full support” to the prime minister.
Sentencing of Aurore Bergé
For her part, Aurore Bergé, president of the Renaissance deputies in the National Assembly, indicated this Sunday on BFMTV that she had exchanged with Élisabeth Borne about this staging. “Anything that means incitement to hatred, to violence, must be prohibited,” she said.
Always on our antenna, Boris Vallaud, president of the socialists elected at the Palais Bourbon, assured that he demanded “calm.” “It’s not my way of doing it,” he said when commenting on the images of the Marseille procession. As for Agnès Evren, vice president of the Republicans, she lashed out at the images “of incredible violence.”
“Even if it is symbolic, it is unacceptable.”
Asked by BFMTV on Saturday about this representation of the prime minister, Olivier Matéu, secretary of the CGT Bouches-du-Rhône departmental union, estimated that “when you don’t want your head on a doll or on a ball, I don’t do politics.”
Source: BFM TV
