The national secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF) was the guest of “8:30 franceinfo” this Saturday.
“Our Responsibility” to all politicians, “is to create the conditions for appeasement, dialogue, to find the words”Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF) and deputy for the North, declared on franceinfo on Saturday July 1, as the violence continued, even if there was less than the previous night, after the death of a 17-year-old teenager during a traffic check.
Many public establishments and police stations were again attacked. “It’s extremely serious. The situation remains extremely worrying, we are on a real powder keg and the slightest spark can set everything ablaze again”declares Fabien Roussel, pointing the finger “the far right blowing on the embers” And “seditious, dangerous police unions.” He insists on the fact that the political class must “collectively call for appeasement and defend public services. The government will have to say that it has heard what is happening in the suburbs” and what matters “put on the table to repair these territories.”
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Emmanuel Macron has called for the responsibility of parents when some young people who participate in the violence are between 13 and 18 years old. “We say young people, but many parents are careful that their children stay at home”believes Fabien Roussel. “There is a minority who will go after public establishments and loot.”
Nahel’s death is “an atrocious tragedy and no citizen should lose their life during a roadside check or during a refusal to comply. But in the Republic, no merchant, no elected official, no firefighter, should be injured by acts of violence like those that we have been living for several days”insists Fabien Roussel.
The state of emergency, synonymous with “failure”
These acts of violence are not new but yet nothing is done, believes the national secretary of the PCF. “What revolts me is that drama after drama, it’s been going on for 20, 30 years, it’s as if successive governments had never heard what the mayors, the elected officials of these municipalities who are crying out for help, who are asking to be listened to, who are asking for greater resources to ensure public safety, for there to be less discrimination against these territories. there still for there to be a start, a consideration of what is happening in these cities? We have been ringing the alarm for years”annoys Fabien Roussel.
The state of emergency, requested in particular by certain elected officials, would be “a failure” for Fabien Roussel. “We are in an extremely serious crisis situation but let’s try to get out of this crisis without resorting to a state of emergency, through dialogue.” The national secretary of the PCF would like Emmanuel Macron to listen to elected officials and receive him “with the mayors of these big cities and hear all the proposals we have” to do to him. Once calm returns, “There will immediately have to be a Grenelle behind it, a Marshall plan.”