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The participation of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the march against Islamophobia earned him a pass with Marine Le Pen through media. CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU / AFP

About fifty personalities have launched a call to demonstrate this Sunday, November 10 in Paris to say "STOP Islamophobia".

Jean-Luc Mélenchon will be there. " Of course I'm going to participate, I signed a text, " said the head of La France unsubdued, interviewed by the press in Marseille. " There are obviously words (of the text) that do not suit me, it is the characteristic of any compromise, " he added, citing "Islamophobia", that some of the Rogue " did not use To " not give the impression that one is forbidden to criticize a religion ".

On November 1, about fifty personalities launched in the columns of the daily Libération a call to demonstrate this Sunday in Paris against Islamophobia after the attack on a mosque in Bayonne and new tensions around the veil. But this march is far from consensus because of the identity of some initiators suspected of being close to political Islam and the terms used, including a passage that implies the existence of state racism to against the Muslim community.

This led some of the left not to join this call, such as the PS or the national secretary of the PCF, and another party to relativize his initial support, as Yannick Jadot (EELV) and François Ruffin (LFI) .

" All those who will go to this demonstration will be hand in hand with the Islamists, " said Saturday morning Marine Le Pen. According to the president of the National Gathering, those who will join this event carry " a very heavy responsibility (...) and will very probably have to answer it in an elective way ". The leader of the far-right party has particularly targeted Jean-Luc Mélenchon she accuses of being " in an operation of true treason of its supporters and voters ."

L'Insoumis in response criticized, Saturday afternoon, " unworthy remarks ": " Madame Le Pen turns her back on France because she did not understand that this is a march of Republican unity of the French ".

Still, the discomfort is real. In a recent poll, nearly half of Muslims in France say they have been victims of discrimination at least once because of their religion. Beyond the polemics, the participants in this Sunday's demonstration share at least the same desire to show their Muslim compatriots that they are French like the others.