On the other hand, on the presence of the RN in the processions, Clément Beaune evokes his “feeling of unease, of disgust”.
It was a walk “necessary, a very beautiful moment, a moment of hope”greets Monday, November 13 on France Inter Clément Beaune, Minister of Transport, the day after numerous marches against anti-Semitism organized in France, which brought together a total of around 182,000 people. “There are few countries capable, faced with an international and domestic situation – with increasing anti-Semitic acts – of mobilizing so quickly, so strongly”says the minister who was on Sunday among the 105,000 Parisian demonstrators who responded to the call from the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet and the President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher.
Asked about the much-discussed presence of the National Rally in the ranks of several processions on Sunday, the Minister of Transport believes that‘”we must certainly not leave this march and this fight against anti-Semitism to the National Rally, that would still be a shame!” Clément Beaune tackles the party’s strategy, made up of the search, according to him, for “scapegoats”, and it ensures that the RN is “a party which can never be the protector of the Jews of France”.
The Paris MP remembers his first demonstration, in April 2002, against the National Front (ex-RN), and he “think that the RN has not changed profoundly” Since. Clément Beaune evokes “a feeling of unease, of disgust, among the citizen and political leader” that it is, “not much [face à] presence with tricolor scarf” elected RN officials, but faced with this idea of “to make people believe, and in particular French people of Jewish faith, that the RN would be a bulwark, a shield against anti-Semitism and the Jews of France: that is an odious lie”thunders the Minister of Transport.
“Durafour-Crématoire”, the gas chambers, “a detail”… “remember what the FN is”
Clément Beaune cites the former president of the FN, Jean-Marie le Pen, as an example. “Jordan Bardella is less than 30 years old, it’s the present, he was not able to say that Jean-Marie le Pen was an anti-Semite”, attacks the minister, in allusion to the words of the current president of the party, who declared on November 5 on BFMTV: “I don’t believe that Jean-Marie Le Pen was anti-Semitic”. However, the latter “was convicted by the courts, he made puns about crematoria [en 1988 contre le ministre Michel Durafour, que le Pen appelle à l’Assemblée ‘Durafour-Crématoire’]he was not capable of condemning anti-Semitism at all, he even said that the Shoah, that the gas chambers were a detail in the history of the Second World War.says Clément Beaune who supports: “It is not only Jean-Marie le Pen we are talking about, but it is his most direct heirs who do not condemn him.”
Finally, the Minister of Transport does not wish “Let us obscure the essential: a beautiful march, with many French people, of all political sensibilities, of all religions”. He assures that this fight against anti-Semitism “is led by efficiency: our first response is police and judicial, not just a march”but, underlines Clément Beaune, “It still feels good to remind everyone what the National Front is.”