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Crif ceremony: Emmanuel Macron’s name booed during Michel Barnier’s speech
Crif ceremony: Emmanuel Macron’s name booed during Michel Barnier’s speech
(France 2)
During Michel Barnier’s speech at the ceremony of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France in tribute to the victims of Hamas attacks, the name of the President of the Republic was sharply whistled.
Strong emotion, Monday October 7, during the Crif ceremony where 4,000 people gathered in tribute to the victims of the massacres of October 7, 2023. During the evening, the speech by Michel Barnier, the Prime Minister, was booed when he mentioned the name of Emmanuel Macron. Some in the room shouted “weapons”, after the French president called on Saturday for a halt to arms deliveries to Israel.
The president of Crif also spoke. Yonathan Arfi launched a violent charge against the movement of Jean-Luc Mélenchon which according to him is in “the camp of dishonor” because LFI “sees resistance fighters where universal conscience recognizes terrorists” And “chooses to hysterize our public debate, by cultivating clientelism and identity assignments”. Here again, as a sign of approval, the bronca was not long in coming. In a press release sent Monday evening, LFI requests the “immediate release” Hamas hostages and denounces a “terrorist act”.
The president of Crif fears that the rise in violence against the Jewish community will worsen. According to the Ministry of the Interior, nearly 900 anti-Semitic incidents have been recorded since the start of the year.