The tricolor scarves of certain left-wing elected officials will be visible in the procession in memory of Adama Traoré in Paris on Saturday afternoon. But only those of Ecologists and Insoumis.
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Some left-wing elected officials plan to walk with relatives of Adama Traoré on Saturday afternoon to denounce police violence, especially after the wave of riots and indignation linked to the death of young Nahel killed by a police officer last week in Nanterre. . A rally moved to Paris, Place de la République, the ban on holding it in Val-d’Oise confirmed yesterday by justice. But not all the left will be present.
To remain mobilized alongside the inhabitants of the districts, EELV and LFI will send delegations of elected officials in support of the relatives of the victims of police violence, starting with the organizer of the event Assa Traoré, Adama’s sister, who died shortly after. his arrest six years ago.
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“We must be alongside the inhabitants of working-class neighborhoods“, insists to franceinfo the ecologist deputy of Val d’Oise Aurélien Taché. For him, there is a form of “timidity within the ranks of the left“about police violence. For him, it is necessary to seize it as La France insoumise does. If LFI still refuses to condemn the violence of the past week, the movement considers that the fracture is gaping, that the government does not can no longer look away, especially since a large part of the rebellious deputies are elected in the constituencies most affected by the riots.
On the other hand, Communists and Socialists will not participate in the march. The PS does not adhere to the slogan of the Traoré collective: “without justice you will never have peace“. The Socialists were moreover among the first to have called for calm on the left after the first riots and to have dissociated themselves from the attitude of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, ambiguous around the condemnation of the degradations. On the PCF side, the national secretary Fabien Roussel took even more distance by declaring “I don’t want the left to be assimilated” to the rebellious leader. For him, there are now two lefts: “his and ours“.