Gérald Darmanin considers unabashed racism to be “extremely worrying”

There “release of racist speech is extremely worrying“, denounced Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior and candidate for re-election in the North, on franceinfo on Friday June 28, two days before the early legislative elections.

The minister confides that he himself receives “periodically, for several weeks, on social networks or by letter, words that call him Moussa“, his middle name which pays homage to his “grandfather who was an Algerian rifleman“.

A few hours earlier, on Thursday evening, Emmanuel Macron had deplored in Brussels the “uninhibited speech“, “racism or anti-Semitism” in the political debate. He denounced the “arrogance” of the National Rally which according to him has “already distributed” all the government posts even before the legislative elections.

While he has recently given the impression of putting on an equal footing what he has designated as the “two extremes“, the RN and La France insoumise “and those who follow them“, Emmanuel Macron seemed to qualify this position in Brussels. “I had the opportunity to say that on the far left, people had made comments about anti-Semitism or violence, about anti-parliamentarianism that I disapproved of, which went beyond the Republican arc, but I am not making a general confusion with all other political parties.“, he concluded.