Former US President Barack Obama has called on Monday to reject rhetoric likely to encourage shootings like those that caused this weekend the death of 31 people in Texas and Ohio.
"We must firmly reject speeches delivered by any of our leaders, fueling a climate of fear and hatred or normalizing racist sentiments," he wrote, without directly naming his Republican successor Donald Trump, who was accused by the Democratic opposition to fuel the rise of intolerance in the country.
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- Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 5, 2019Trump condemns white supremacism
Saturday, a white man Saturday killed 20 people in a hypermarket in El Paso, a Texas city with a strong Hispanic majority. Another gunman, unknown for the moment, killed nine people in Ohio on Sunday. On Monday, US President Donald Trump condemned the racist ideology of white supremacism, suspected of being at work in the El Paso shooting, while avoiding a focus on the fight against guns. The Republican billionaire, in an intervention since the White House, preferred to insist on the harmful role that would play according to him Internet in the radicalization of people suffering from mental disorders.
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He also described as "crimes against humanity" the two attacks that fueled the litany of tragedies caused by individual weapons in a country where they abound.