Paris (AFP)
Government spokeswoman Sibeth Nidaye lamented Sunday that the movement of "yellow vests", marked Saturday by new violence, for several months "gangrené by ultras" of the extreme left.
"Unfortunately the movement of + yellow vests + is, for a number of months, gangrené by ultras, people who consider that the political violence is legitimate and in any case we can not accept it", declared on Radio J the government representative.
Among the "yellow vests", "we also had people who became radicalized, obviously I regret it.We also had people who made the entry, including the ultragauche, which lead today to what there is this violence, "Nidaye added.
However, "we can not summarize" the movement "exclusively to this violence," she added, because "it has been a carrier of both what is the French malaise" and "claims" to which the government, according to her, provided answers "extremely massive" in December 2018.
Nidaye also called on insubordinate France leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon to "keep his nerves" after the latter on Saturday called the police a "government militia", following a tense verbal exchange between force of the order and the deputy LFI Alexis Corbière, according to a video diffused by this last one.
"MP Alexis Corbière gassed and cold-blooded after he declined his identity on leaving the declared protest, it is no longer a Republican police, just a government militia, it is this militia that causes disorder "tweeted Saturday Mr. Mélenchon.
For Sibeth Ndiaye, who emphasizes that we do not see on this video of "gassing" of the deputy, "these are extremely serious accusations".
"I call everyone to know how to keep their nerves especially when you are a high-level political officer whom I respect as Jean-Luc Mélenchon," she said. "We can not say in France that there is a government militia, it refers either to extremely serious historical facts or to democracies that are not democracies.In France nobody fires live bullets on a crowd" she insisted.
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