While the government is preparing a law against "separatism", Emmanuel Macron has decided to postpone his speech on the issue initially scheduled for next week.

"A very bad sign" for Manuel Valls, interviewed by the "Sunday newspaper", which calls on the head of state to "restore authority".

INTERVIEW

Separatism.

It is one of the notions which agitates the political re-entry of the French government.

The executive is preparing a law on separatism and the President of the Republic is due to deliver a speech on this topic during the next week.

He finally decided to postpone the deadline, which is "a very bad sign" according to Manuel Valls who calls on the president to "restore authority".

The former Socialist Prime Minister spoke at length in the columns of the

Journal du dimanche

.

He who used, when he was in office, the terms of "territorial, social, ethnic and even religious apartheid", does not deny the vocabulary of Emmanuel Macron.

For him, "we must obviously fight against all separatism, on condition that we name them correctly, but let's not be naive: the real subject is the battle against Islamism, political Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists ".

"The terrorist threat still exists"

However, Manuel Valls denies any amalgamation.

No way for him to stigmatize Muslims.

The socialist pleads for "to help the Muslims of France, because the battle is also that of Islam against Islamism".

Guest from Europe 1 at the beginning of the week, the former Minister of the Interior Jean-Pierre Chevènement assured that it was "difficult to dispute the existence of an Islamist peril in France".

Here again, Manuel Valls is in perfect harmony with this rhetoric and repeats word for word: "It is difficult to dispute, in our country as in Europe, the existence of an Islamist peril. Of course, the terrorist threat still exists ( ...) in our country, individuals can take action, as we have seen in recent months ".

Former Minister of the Interior then Prime Minister under François Hollande, Manuel Valls is familiar with these themes having been confronted with them on a daily basis.

This also allows him to have a precise idea of ​​the procedure to follow.

According to him, a first emergency, "which does not appear in the bill, is the remobilization of the republican and secular camp".

"The major associations of popular education, especially on the left, have failed: the League of Education, the League of Human Rights ... Only the Licra has saved the honor. We must remobilize society through the parties , unions, associations, think tanks, around the Republic and secularism. Let us already apply the laws that exist on religious symbols at school or on the prohibition of the full veil, "concludes the politician.