Paris (AFP)
Marine Le Pen criticized Tuesday the "political leaders who rejoice in these scenes of civil war" in the United States, citing Jean-Luc Mélenchon, while there are increasing in the French political class the criticisms against the muscular response of Donald Trump.
The president of the National Rally castigated France 2 for "political leaders who rejoice in these scenes of civil war, lynching, looting and who express the wish to see these racial wars imported into the national territory", mentioning the chief of the rebellious.
"We can see that her dream (to Mr. Mélenchon) is a real nightmare," she commented.
"The vest-yellowing has entered the heart of the American Empire", rejoiced Monday evening Mr. Mélenchon in a blog note, saying that this is "the first season after Covid-19 "which" opens the monstrous social crisis which will surge ".
Donald Trump faces the most serious civil unrest in his tenure as hundreds of thousands of Americans protest police brutality, racism and social inequality, exacerbated by the Covid-19 crisis.
The head of the RN assured that his party would continue "to defend secularism, to oppose communalism, to defend the republican pact because we especially do not want people to be determined by the color of their skin. We see the conflicts that this gives ".
"What is important is to be French in France. And to be French is not a story of skin color, to be French is to love France, its history, its culture, its way of life "added the far right leader.
Senator RN Stéphane Ravier for his part said on LCI that there were in the United States "riots that take on the appearance of real anti-white racism. White people are targets, the police too because we have instrumentalized this case ".
Other politicians have criticized the positioning of Donald Trump, who on Monday threatened to deploy the military to end the violence.
EELV MEP Yannick Jadot denounced on Twitter the "worst of Donald Trump's responses to the extraordinary mobilization in the US (and in the rest of the world), against racism and police violence, for justice".
"I fear a conflagration and this situation in the United States is the result of the action of Donald Trump, but also of two centuries of social segregation and racial segregation", denounced on Sud Radio the national secretary of EELV Julien Bayou .
Assembly LREM Vice-President Hugues Renson said on Twitter that "when an ally is on the wrong track, it is our duty to tell them."
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