During a question to the government on migrants, LFI deputy Carlos Martens Bilongo was interrupted after racist remarks from the ranks of the RN. The sentence “that they return to Africa” was pronounced by the deputy Grégoire de Fournas.
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“The true face of the National Rally has always been there”, denounces Thursday, November 3 on franceinfo the deputy and spokesperson for Renaissance Prisca Thevenot. The session of questions to the government was suspended on Wednesday after a racist remark by a National Rally deputy in the National Assembly. While a parliamentarian from La France insoumise, Carlos Martens Bilongo, asked the government a question about immigration in the Mediterranean, Grégoire de Fournas, deputy Rassemblement national de Gironde loudly launched: “Let them go back to Africa!”
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“There are two problems in this affair. On the one hand, these racist remarks towards our colleague, but also the position and the reaction of the National Rally as a whole”, believes Prisca Thevenot. She hopes for a “hardest and firmest punishment” possible. “Once again, we see that racism still has its place alongside Marine Le Pen and within the National Rally.”
“The RN deputies physically united to prevent this deputy from leaving the hemicycle when we all came down to hold him to account and, even worse, they defended him by trying to trivialize, find excuses and want reinterpret a context that we understood very well.”
Prisca Thevenot, Renaissance deputy.at franceinfo
Prisca Thevenot ensures that the ushers present at the National Assembly “are very clear in their reports”. Deputy RN Grégoire de Fournas “said words against” of LFI deputy Carlos Martens Bilongo. “There is no doubt about it!”