INTERVIEW
Representation "abject and unacceptable", "apology for racism", "nauseating novel": the "political fiction" of the conservative magazine Valeurs Actuelles on the LFI deputy Danièle Obono, depicted as a slave, sparked a wave of condemnations on Saturday, until President of the Republic. In this seven-page story published this week, the member for Paris "experiences the responsibility of Africans in the horrors of slavery" in the 18th century, according to the magazine's presentation, with drawings by Danièle Obono, necklace iron neck. She believes the support she has received is "a signal" of what is "no longer acceptable."
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"From now on, it will no longer be acceptable"
Faced with the outcry over the publication of the article, Current Values apologized to the member for this text accompanied by an illustration depicting her chained. But according to the editorial director of Valeurs Actuelles , Geoffroy Lejeune, it is unjustified to speak of racism and it evokes above all a clumsiness. Explanations that did not convince either the entire political class or the main interested party, Danièle Obono, who explains having appreciated the unanimous support received yesterday.
"It is perhaps a realization that this strategy of the extreme right of targeting, of aiming, of harassing, has gone too far", notes the member at the microphone of Europe 1. "They can say this that they want, but I think that the fact that they are obliged to answer for their actions is a strong signal, because that perhaps means that from now on, it will not be acceptable any more; that these people do not will no longer be well established, that the platforms will no longer be opened to them to pour out their hatred. "
The MP says she is also considering the possibility of legal proceedings.