Paris (AFP)
Former MEP Bruno Gollnisch, member of the national bureau (enlarged management) of the National Rally, suggested on Saturday evening protesters against police violence to leave "in their country of origin", while an elected representative of the party, Julien Odoul, asked them to "go far".
"If France is this abominably racist country, where police violence is common, etc., I think it would be wiser for the + unfortunate victims + excruciatingly discriminated against to really consider going back to their radiant countries of origin. .. ", wrote on Twitter Bruno Gollnisch, former vice-president of the FN (now RN) and close to the former president of the FN Jean-Marie Le Pen.
"Leave quickly! Leave far!", Tweeted Julien Odoul, president of the RN group at the regional council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, in comment on a video showing activists from the Black African Defense League, who had notably called for a demonstration on Saturday in Paris.
"OUTSIDE", wrote on Twitter about the same video the national delegate for Studies of RN Jean Messiha.
RN vice-president Jordan Bardella affirmed, by publishing the same video, that "while Christophe Castaner (Minister of the Interior) seems to be on a lazy weekend, indigenous activists have poured out their hatred of our country a little everywhere. While these gatherings were PROHIBITED! "
"This government has given up on enforcing the law and, worse, on enforcing France," added the MEP.
The shock wave caused by the death of George Floyd in the United States continued to spread on Saturday in France where more than 23,000 demonstrators, according to the Minister of the Interior, denounced the police violence and demanded "justice for all" , in rallies organized in several cities.
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