INTERVIEW
"What are we talking about?" There is a Muslim mother who is being humiliated in front of her little boy by a right-wing elected official, and France is discussing the veil and communitarianism There are two faithful of one mosque being shot at, and France debate the veil and communitarianism? Where is this country? The serious facts committed against our fellow Muslims, this is what must be condemned, "begins Stéphane Troussel, chairman of the county council of Seine-Saint-Denis, labeled Socialist Party (PS).
The questions of secularism, the veil to community lists in the next municipal elections, are on everyone's lips elected French. The Senate voted on Tuesday to ban the wearing of religious symbols for accompanying students on school trips.
"Could this country stop racing on this issue?"
"I am president of the departmental council of Seine-Saint-Denis, I was born in Saint-Denis, I live La Courneuve since my birth.I make permanences in the canton where I am elected, La Courneuve, where I grown up, where I went to school, where my children go to school, and when my fellow citizens come to see me at my home, what do they come to talk to me about, they do not come to talk to me about religion, they come to talk to me about housing, security, employment, access to the nursery.Is this country could stop to get excited about this issue? "asks Stephane Troussel.
Regarding the municipal elections of March 2020, the government is preparing the response to the election of "community" lists, even though the probability of election remains very low.
"There are measures to be taken once the election is over," said Sebastien Lecornu, interviewed on Tuesday on Europe 1. "For a mayor who would divert his police powers or a mayor who disrupt public service for communitarian purposes, he There are ways to sanction, there are already procedures to suspend a mayor or to remove him, I think we can go further. "
"They want to be full citizens"
Stéphane Troussel, he wondered: "I do not ignore the temptations that may exist for some, the will of a political Islam for others.But we must reduce this to its proper proportion. Muslims who live in working-class neighborhoods want to be full-fledged citizens, and give them peace on their religion! "
The elected member of the departmental council of Seine-Saint-Denis recalls that the community lists only collected 0.13% of the votes in the last European elections. "The cookie-making statements of a number of firefighters are clashing with reality on the ground," he says.