Guest of franceinfo on Wednesday, Benoit Payan believes that Marine Le Pen’s “history” “should lead her” not to attend the pantheonization ceremony of the Armenian communist resistance fighter.
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The presence of Marine Le Pen, as well as other members of the National Rally, at the entry ceremony into the Pantheon of Missak Manouchian on Tuesday February 21, “Chills the blood”, denounced on franceinfo the PS mayor of Marseille Benoît Payan. At the head of a group of immigrant communist resistance fighters, Missak Manouchian was tortured by French police and then shot by German soldiers in 1944.
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“Marine Le Pen is an elected official of the Nation, she is legitimate in this capacity”declared the mayor of Marseille. “However, her story should lead her not to be there”he believes, because “she is the head of a political party which was on the other side of the barrier, which made foreigners, communists, people to be hunted and hunted down, which made the fight and the ultimate sacrifice of these people something they didn’t accept.”.
“The ideas it carries are ideas of xenophobia, of rejection of the other.”
Benoit Payanat franceinfo
“Today, seeing them here is a terrible reversal of history, it freezes the blood”continued Benoît Payan. “There are limits”finished the mayor of Marseille, ensuring that “if tomorrow we brought a member of Marine Le Pen’s political family into the Pantheon, I would have the decency to stay at home”.
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