Marseille (AFP)
The leader of France insubordinate Jean-Luc Mélenchon confirmed Saturday that he would participate in the demonstration against Islamophobia the next day, before responding to Marine Le Pen who accused him of being "hand in hand with the Islamists ".
"Of course I will participate, I signed a text," said the head of the MPs Insoumis, interviewed by the press in Marseille before a march in tribute to the victims of the collapsing buildings of the rue d'Aubagne, he a year ago.
"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 ".
About fifty personalities have launched a call to protest on November 10 in Paris to say "STOP Islamophobia", after the attack of a mosque and new tensions around the veil.
The terms used and the identity of some initiators suspected of being close to political Islam led some of the left not to associate with the call published on November 1 in Libération, as the PS or the secretary the PCF, and another party to relativize its initial support, such as Yannick Jadot (EELV) and François Ruffin (LFI).
"All those who will go to this demonstration will be hand in hand with the Islamists," denounced Saturday morning the President of the National Rally, attacking in particular Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
L'Insoumis 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 ".
According to him, the president of the far-right party "only likes one category of French and not the others". "When our Muslim compatriots, who represent the second religion of this country, are today singled out, insulted, physically threatened, it is our duty to come to the rescue," added Mr. Mélenchon.
He then alluded to the attack on the mosque in Bayonne, whose alleged perpetrator is a former front-line candidate in the departmental elections: "Ms. Le Pen should at least apologize for having counted in her ranks someone who sought to murder other people at the door of a mosque. "
Jean-Luc Mélenchon then "addressed the voters of the National Front" (former name of the RN): "Many of you love the Republican homeland, (...) so show love, show that he there is no French for you to keep separate. "
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