"I do not have to apologize as a White and as a Frenchwoman" for "the death of an African-American" and of Adama Traore, said Wednesday evening in a video posted on his facebook site l ex-right-wing deputy Marion Maréchal.
RN Marine Le Pen's niece sees her words as an “epidermal reaction” to the “steamroller” of the Georges Floyd case, an African-American killed by a white police officer who caused great stir in the world and revived in France the controversy over the death of Adama Traoré in 2016 following his arrest by the police.
"I don't have to apologize as a White woman and as a Frenchwoman - you see what we are reduced to by having to position ourselves in this way - I don't have to apologize for the death of a African American in the United States. I do not have to apologize for the death of an offender, Adama Traoré, an accidental death which took place following an unrelated arrest, it is important to remember, at his skin color, but to the crimes he allegedly committed, "she said. Adama Traoré was arrested during an operation targeting his brother Bagui, suspected of extortion.
"Attempt to subvert souls"
"I do not have to apologize because I did not colonize, I did not colonize anyone, I did not enslave anyone in the same way as all these political groups and all these political activists themselves they were never even colonized or enslaved, "she said.
She denounced an “attempt to subvert souls” and “militant, leftist, so-called anti-racist, indigenous groups," Black lives matter "" which, according to her, "not only ask us to kneel, but in addition to dirty the memory of our ancestors, spit on our history, purge our heritage of tearing down our statues ”. She accuses the government of having yielded to "the law of group emotion, vile political calculation and stupidity" by tolerating demonstrations denouncing violence and racism within the police.
Marion Maréchal, who has given up the exercise of a mandate to run a school of political science in Lyon, regularly makes controversial appearances. She announced in early October that she did not intend to "be a presidential candidate in 2022", after a meeting organized by her relatives who had annoyed within the National Rally and fueled speculation about her possible return to politics.
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- Adama Traore
- Marion Maréchal-Le Pen
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