“America has a serious problem with violence, with guns, and that’s nothing new. Biden’s America is the same as Trump’s America“, said Wednesday May 25, 2022 on franceinfo Julien Odoul, spokesperson for the RN, regional councilor for Franche-Comté and legislative candidate in Yonne, after the shooting which left 21 dead including 19 children in a school in Texas. , in Uvalde, Tuesday.
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“I see that Mr. Biden is disgusted by this massacre, and we can understand it“, underlines Julien Odoul. But he judges that the American president “is a little less disgusted that America is the world’s leading arms exporter“.”When it’s American weapons that kill Americans, it shocks him. On the other hand, when it is American weapons that kill Yemeni civilians and arm the Saudi army, it does not shock him.“, denounces the elected RN.
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He calls himself a supporter of a “real work to be done, both for the regulation of weapons at the domestic level in the United States, but also with regard to the export of weapons“. For he admits that there is in the United States “an identity, a history, which explains why Americans believe that they can get justice, that they can arm themselves, that they can defend themselves“.
According to Julien Odoul, “this culture is also coming to France, in certain neighborhoods“. The RN spokesman claims that there is “more and more guns in the neighborhoods“.”You have militias, bands. You have delinquents who today are over-armed and who sometimes attack the police.“
The candidate for the legislative elections advocates “the disarmament of certain suburbs which, today, constitute a threat in enclaves where the police officers are sometimes mistreated, even attacked“.
Julien Odoul recognizes that there is “an ocean” between the situation of the United States and that of France. But he does not wish “that this culture of violence, this culture of armament, comes to France and that this culture, which is contrary to our identity, our history, our way of life, contaminates our society“.