“How many murders, attacks, rapes, gratuitous attacks at the exit of a nightclub coming from the ultra-right? Zero,” said the head of the Reconquest list in the European elections, on franceinfo.
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After more than two weeks of ultra-right mobilizations, including the punitive expedition of Romans-sur-Isère, linked to the death of young Thomas in the Drôme, the executive vice-president of Reconquête! and head of the party list for the European elections next June Marion Maréchal, guest of 8:30 a.m. franceinforefused to condemn this violence. “We do not care”launches the former MP who believes that it is a “diversionary maneuver” to avoid talking about “anti-white racism”. For her, “it’s giving credence to a threat that doesn’t exist”.
Asked about her use of the qualifier “zozos” to talk about the ultra-right activists, including some neo-Nazis, who confronted the police in Romans-sur-Isère on November 25, Marion Maréchal says she does not want to “participate in any way in what I considered to be a huge diversionary maneuver, since, ten days after the murder of Thomas, the subject in France and the threat in France became the ultra-right.”
For the head of Eric Zemmour’s party, the ultra-right is a “paltry threat”, “that’s not the point.” “Honestly, that’s not what threatens France today. What threatens France is ultra-delinquency and ultra-criminality, it’s drug trafficking, it’s insecurity of everyday life, it’s Islamism, terrorist attacks, it’s not the ultra-right”she insists, while she was questioned about this ultra-right gathering in Romans-sur-Isère, the first elements of which, and in particular the fact that certain participants had the addresses of the main suspects in the murder of Thomas in Crépol, reinforce the idea that it was a punitive expedition.
Why not condemn the small groups responsible for violence? “From the day when [elle] begins to condemn”she would be criticized, according to her, for not doing so “with sufficient gravity”Or “some small links with these people who are in these demonstrations”she implies. “We do not care” of the ultra-right, estimates Marion Maréchal, emphasizing the attack which cost the life of a German-Filipino tourist in Paris last weekend. “All the time we spend talking about [la menace d’ultradroite]it’s giving credence to a threat that doesn’t exist.”
“How many murders, how many attacks, how many rapes, how many gratuitous attacks when leaving a nightclub or for a cigarette from the ultra-right? Zero. That’s the reality, zero”she concludes, ignoring in particular the ten attempted ultra-right attacks foiled by Internal Security in France since 2017, the death at the hands of a skinhead of the anti-fascist activist Clément Méric in 2013, the attack on the Bayonne mosque in 2019, or the assassination of rugby player Federico Martín Aramburú in Paris in 2022 by a former member of the GUD.