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09:52 : ? Racist remarks to the National Assembly ➡️ “These are unbearable remarks, pure racism”, reacts the Minister of Solidarity. “I hope that the sanctions which will be taken will be extremely firm and that it can go as far as a expulsion.” https://t.co/lhw8MjpQBz
09:52 : On franceinfo, Jean-Christophe Combe, the Minister of Solidarity, Autonomy and People with Disabilities, strongly condemned the words of Grégoire de Fournas. “These are unbearable words, pure racism, these words must be condemned with the greatest firmness”did he declare. “I expect the National Assembly to take extremely firm sanctions”added the Minister.
09:31 : “There is no doubt.”
According to Carlos Martens Bilongo, LFI deputy, interviewed on BFMTV, the words of Grégoire de Fournas were intended for him.
09:29 : On BFMTV, the deputy LFI Carlos Martens Bilongo declares that he heard “return to Africa” in the hemicycle. About the soundtrack recorded at the National Assembly during the incident, “we will try to have a professional extraction” to confirm that what he heard is what was said.
09:23 : “The truth is that this manipulation suits LFI, which has been in a vacuum since the Quatennens affair.”
For his defense on CNews, Grégoire de Fournas assures that his remarks were made in a certain context. “The LFI MP talks about the SOS Méditerranée boat which is unable to dock on European shoresdetails Grégoire de Fournas, he says that it poses a difficulty and that bad weather will happen. So I answer what has always been the position of the National Rally, ‘let this boat go back to Africa’.”
09:12 : Guest on CNews, Grégoire de Fournas returned to the controversy which agitates the National Assembly. “I did not understand what happened at the time”he assured in reaction to the bronca which rose in the hemicycle. “I said a sentence which had a precise meaning and which was hijacked by La France insoumise”he added. “The LFI deputy understood what I meant, he then understood that he had something to play for”he continued.
09:07 : It’s time to take stock of the news.
• The RN deputy Grégoire de Fournas wrote to Carlos Martens Bilongo after his racist arrest in the Hemicycle, ensuring that his remarks were addressed to the migrant boat of which the LFI deputy spoke, and not to the speaker himself. The office of the National Assembly is meeting this afternoon to discuss a possible sanction.
• After his racist remarks in the National Assembly, the deputy RN Grégoire de Fournas risks up to “censorship with temporary exclusion” of the Hemicycle. The Assembly’s rules of procedure recall that there are four disciplinary penalties applicable to its members: call to order, call to order with entry in the minutes, censure and censure with temporary exclusion.
EDF has again revised downwards its nuclear electricity production forecasts for 2022, suggesting additional difficulties for the end of the year. A setback justified by the extension of the shutdown of four reactors affected by a corrosion problem.
• Nearly 4.5 million people in Ukraine were without electricity overnight due to Russian strikes against the country’s infrastructure. President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced a “energy terror”. Here’s what to remember from the day.
Faced with global warming, “let’s not mistake the culprit”. In a column published on franceinfo.fr, more than 800 scientists, including climatologist Jean Jouzel and economist Thomas Piketty, defend the scientists arrested this week in Germany for an action of civil disobedience against BMW.