“We understand that power does not like counter-powers”, launches François Ruffin

“We understand that power does not like counter-powers”launched the Insoumis deputy of the Somme François Ruffin Thursday, April 13, on franceinfo, the day after the declarations of Elisabeth Borne questioning the Senate during the session of questions to the government, on the evolution and the role of the League of Human Rights (LDH) on Islamism or the demonstrations in Sainte-Soline, relaying the criticisms of its Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin. “I have a lot of respect for what the LDH has embodied” but “I no longer understand some of his positions”the Prime Minister said on Wednesday.

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“The League for Human Rights is a counter-power”, “a militant counter-power for human rights” reacted for his part the deputy LFI, assuring that “the power” must “accept counter-powers”. Otherwise, “What will the Republic look like?”, asked François Ruffin. For him, the fact that the association founded in 1898 during the Dreyfus affair attacked an order prohibiting the transport of weapons by destination to Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres), a place of confrontation between police and opponents of mega-basins “take part in the public debate, it feeds and builds it”.

“Go get the little beast saying “we won’t give you any more money”, [est une] pathetic way of behaving towards an association”

François Ruffin, rebellious deputy of the Somme

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Gérald Darmanin said during his hearing on policing before Parliament last week that “the subsidy given by the State” at the LDH “deserves to be looked at within the framework of the actions which could be carried out”. Wednesday, in front of the senators, the head of government however assured that it was not “there is no question of lowering the subsidy for this or that in principle” association, reaffirming its desire to see human rights organizations pursue “their lookout”.