Tribute to the Manouchian couple and war in Ukraine… Fabien Roussel’s 8:30 a.m. franceinfo

Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the PCF, was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo” on Wednesday February 21, 2024. He answered questions from Agathe Lambret and Jean-Rémi Baudot.

Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the PCF, was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo” on Wednesday February 21, 2024. He answered questions from Agathe Lambret and Jean-Rémi Baudot.

Communist resistance at the Pantheon: “An honor and reparation”

“Finally, the Communist Resistance enters the Pantheon, it is an honor for us and a reparation”declared the national secretary of the Communist Party, Fabien Roussel. “It’s a reparation because we weren’t there and we’re finally there”he continued, as communist resistance fighters Missak Manouchian and his wife Mélinée entered the Pantheon on Wednesday.

Stateless, survivor of the Armenian genocide, the pantheonization of Missak Manouchian and 23 of his comrades in arms is the ultimate recognition for these shadow fighters. “Many great figures of the Resistance were at the Pantheon and we find all the movements there, whether the Gaullists, the Catholics, the Freemasons, the communist resistance was missing,” underlined Fabien Roussel. “I thank the President of the Republic for responding to this request” and D‘”make it a national tribute”he said.

Marine Le Pen presents at the tribute: “It’s up to her to judge whether her presence is decent”

Asked about the presence of Marine Le Pen at the entry ceremony into the Pantheon of Missak and Mélinée Manouchian, the national secretary of the Communist Party recalled that the leader of the RN deputies “presided” A “party with blood on their hands”. “It’s up to her to judge whether her presence is decent,” he added. “She is not only the political heiress, but even the blood heiress” of the party founded in 1972 by his father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, and of those nostalgic for the Vichy regime, of which the RN is heir. Emmanuel Macron estimated in an interview published Monday in daily L’Humanité that “the far-right forces would be inspired not to be present given the nature of Manouchian’s fight”. Last year, Élisabeth Borne declared that Marine Le Pen’s party was a “heir of Pétain” carrying a “dangerous ideology” and which should not be “trivialize” ideas.

Ukraine, the left in disarray

Asked about the positions of Raphael Glucksmann, head of the socialist list for the European elections, who believes that France “should be completely switched to a war economy” in view of the situation in Ukraine. Fabien Roussel replies that it is necessary “sit around the table”. “I do not want our children, European youth to be involved in this war”declares Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the PCF who “calls for a Helsinki conference”. “Are we ready to engage in a conflict that could cause millions of deaths?” he questions.

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