Audrey Pulvar, Deputy Mayor of Paris -

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The PS candidate for the regional in Ile-de-France, Audrey Pulvar, made the right leap this Sunday by estimating that a white person who would attend a meeting devoted to discrimination against black or mestizo people could remain "silent spectator" .

Asked Saturday by BFMTV on the controversy surrounding the student union Unef, the deputy of the Paris City Hall declared: "That people discriminated against for the same reasons and in the same way feel the need to meet together to discuss it, that does not shock me deeply.

"And" if it turns out that comes to this workshop on racism against a white woman, a white man, there is no question of it or throwing it out.

On the other hand, we can ask him to be silent, to be a silent spectator.

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These statements come after a week of intense controversy around the UNEF whose president, Mélanie Luce, had defended the organization of "single-sex" meetings to "allow people affected by racism to be able to express what they want. suffer ”.

The words of Audrey Pulvar, a close friend of Anne Hidalgo, provoked indignant comments on the right, on the extreme right and even in the presidential majority.

Misunderstanding of the right

“In my region, no inhabitant should be discriminated against for the color of their skin.

There is no such thing as "acceptable" racism, "reacted on Twitter the current president of the Ile-de-France region, Valérie Pécresse (ex-LR, Libres!).

The head of the LREM list in Ile-de-France, Laurent Saint-Martin, denounced a "form of essentialism" which "is at the base of the construction of racist thought".

“After being elected thanks to elected Greens whom she describes as anti-republicans, what does Anne Hidalgo say about her segregationist deputy?

», Asked Rachida Dati (LR).

The president of the National Gathering, Marine Le Pen, she considered that "the prosecution must initiate proceedings for incitement to racial discrimination against Audrey Pulvar".

"Is it this left which flounders in Islamo-leftism and hatred of whites which aspires to preside over the first region of France?"

“, Asked his lieutenant, Jordan Bardella, himself a candidate for regional in Ile-de-France.

Audrey Pulvar, a 49-year-old former journalist, on the other hand received the support on the left from Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

“Audrey Pulvar is not racist!

She just understood what a support group is, ”said the leader of rebellious France on Twitter.

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