After the controversial remarks of the deputy RN Grégoire de Fournas, who admitted having pronounced the sentence “that he (s) return(s) to Africa”, during the speech of the deputy LFI Carlos Martens Bilongo, the spokesperson of the RN, deplores on franceinfo that “the far left uses the skin color of its deputy to open the controversy”.
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“Grégoire de Fournas spoke of the boat, he indicated that these SOS Méditerranée boats accompany migrants to the ports from which they come. It is a political debate”defend Friday 4 November on franceinfo Sébastien Chenu, spokesperson for the National Rally, RN deputy from the North and vice-president of the National Assembly.
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Deputy RN Grégoire de Fournas admitted to having uttered the sentence “that he(they) return(s) to Africa”, during the speech of LFI deputy Carlos Martens Bilongo. And not “Go back to Africa” as some parliamentarians have heard. He assures that he was talking about the SOS Méditerranée boat. “The far left is contradicted this morning by the report of the National Assembly”assures Sébastien Chenu.
For Carlos Martens Bilongo, even if his colleague adds a “that he”several deputies have “heard the same thing” and “one thing is sure” that his colleague says “Let them” or “Let him return(s) to Africa”, these are words”racists”. The report of the National Assembly reports this sentence in the singular but it is still necessary to determine if the deputy Grégoire de Fournas was addressing the college of insubordinate France or if he was talking – as he assures – of the migrant boat .
At the question “Could you have said those things?”Sébastien Chenu replies: “It turns out that a priori they did not arrive from Africa so I would not have said that they return to Africa but that they return from where they come from.” He adds that he “is attached to the rights of human beings: an individual who falls into the water, we do not let him drown. I have no ambiguity on that”. Member of the National Rally “finds it scandalous that the extreme left uses the skin color of its deputy to open the controversy”.