She had probably imagined a better reception. As soon as she got off the TGV on Tuesday morning, Marine Le Pen was able to see around thirty demonstrators hostile to her coming. Gathered in front of Brest station, they chant “Marine, get out of here, Brest is antifa!”
Recovery
Among them, André does not support the recovery by the candidate of the recent events of Pontanézen. “It is based on various facts which exist, which have always existed. She turns it upside down to draw attention to herself. That she has been spreading hatred and racism for years. She is a millionaire, who does not defend the interests of workers and people who are in misery”.
A brief detour around the neighborhood
Accompanied by Gilles Pennelle, the boss of the National Rally in Brittany, the candidate briefly went to Pontanézen, the scene of several violent incidents since January 19. A visit on the sly which had not been announced to the press, “For safety reasons”justifies his team.
In two minutes, Marine Le Pen shoots a video immediately published on her social networks, before returning to the city center. She will not have spoken to the least inhabitant neighborhood. “We say to ourselves, but what is she doing there? What is she coming to collect voices on human misery, on daily difficulties? The more we stir up hatred and tensions, the less there is solidarity, and the more difficult it is to live”indignant Loïc Le Nel, director of the Horizons social center in Pontanézen.
Marine Le Pen was then received at midday for more than half an hour at the police station. To the output, under boos and insults antifa activists, the finalist of the last presidential election had to rush into a vehicle to travel… less than 100 meters. There have been some jostling in front of the Oceania hotel, protected by a imposing cordon of riot police.
After lunch, the candidate gave a press conference to detail her security measures. A good twenty Parisian journalists had made the trip.
Brest is emblematic of this explosion of crime