Marlène Schiappa, Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Interior, in charge of Citizenship, was the guest of “8:30 am franceinfo”, Sunday 14 November. Attacks by Eric Zemmour on the attacks of November 13, 2015, reinforced sanitary pass controls, abstention in 2022 … She answered questions from Ersin Leibowitch and Jean-Jérôme Bertolus.
Attacks of November 13: we must “stay above the low polemics”
“The pre-campaign is very violent”, judge on franceinfo Marlène Schiappa, adding that a “trap is set for us”. We must try “to stay above these low polemics”, she explains.
Eric Zemmour accused François Hollande on Friday of not having “nothing done” to prevent the attacks of November 13, 2015. “The government was aware of the danger, and it preferred that the French die rather than prevent migrants from coming to France”, declared the possible far-right candidate for the presidential election during a trip to Bordeaux. This Saturday evening, in front of the Bataclan, he repeated his remarks, accusing François Hollande of having “made a criminal decision to leave the borders open”.
Asked to respond to these comments, Marlène Schiappa recalls that “the aim of the terrorists is to divide the country, to make sure that in France, people grab hold of each other. They attacked our way of life, diversity, places of celebration, where we mix “, thus relaying François Hollande’s response to Éric Zemmour. The former President of the Republic denounced “deliberately maintained polemics” and who have “only one goal, to prevent us from being coherent, united in the face of this tragedy”.
The Minister for Citizenship added that “nobody wants to hear this type of talk during moments of meditation”, and that she did not wish to echo these words, particularly in the context of the trial and commemorations of the November 13 attacks. She wants nevertheless “not to let anything pass on the values, and on the unity of the Republic”.
In addition, Marlène Schiappa wanted to respond to the insult launched by Eric Zemmour against him. He called her a fool after she was worried about a filmed sequence showing Eric Zemmour pointing with a gun to journalists following his trip to the Milipol salon in Villepinte. His insult “says more about him than about me”, concludes the Minister.
Health pass: 14 verbalizations on 3,500 establishments inspected
During the week of November 1 to 7, “nearly 3,500 establishments have been checked”, announces Marlène Schiappa, “only 14 were fined”. In detail, 3,486 establishments were checked, 35 infringements were noted, which gave rise to the 14 verbalizations mentioned by the Minister but also to 5 closure orders and 16 formal notices to comply on pain of closure. , learned franceinfo.
Marlène Schiappa ensures that in accordance with the announcement of Emmanuel Macron, during his speech on Tuesday, “the police checks on the health pass will be reinforced” and recalls that he “there is no break during Christmas because the virus does not take a break “.
A “major campaign to encourage the vote” for the presidential election
Abstention has broken records in every poll since the election of Emmanuel Macron in 2017, with the exception of Europeans. “A major campaign to encourage people to vote” will be launched at the beginning of January, three months before the first round of the presidential election, announces Marlène Schiappa,
The explosion of absenteeism is “a democratic alert” according to the Minister Delegate, who notes in particular that “young people are not going to vote”, while they have “rarely showed their commitment so much”, like the Youth for Climate movement and their participation in gatherings for gender equality.
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