Paris (AFP)
Jean-Luc Mélenchon admitted to having made "a mistake" by using the term of Chechen "community" with which France would have "a problem" according to him, explained Tuesday the number two of LFI Adrien Quatennens.
"I think there is a problem with the Chechen community in France," the leader of the movement said on BFMTV on Sunday, calling for "expelling" the Chechens who act on the ground of "Islamism. policy ", two days after the beheading of a teacher in the Yvelines by a young Chechen Russian.
Asked about France 2 on this term of "community" which surprised in the ranks of LFI, Adrien Quatennens stressed that Mr. Mélenchon "had the opportunity just leaving this program to say that he had made a mistake in using the term community, which gives the impression of attacking such and such ".
"He meant concretely that between the armed attacks a few weeks ago in Dijon and the Conflans attack, obviously there is also a real subject here for our intelligence services that must be explored", added M. Quatennens.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, regularly accused by his opponents of "Islamo-leftism", also hardened his tone on Sunday by denouncing with unusual words in his mouth "Islamist terrorism".
"We must fight Islamist terrorism but we must not have a logic of generalized suspicion", confirmed Adrien Quatennens: "Millions of our fellow citizens suffer from seeing this barbarity committed in the name of their god, of which they do not see well this that he comes to do in this story ".
He indicated that LFI deputies "could agree" with certain provisions that will appear in the law against separatism to be presented to the Council of Ministers on December 9, namely the issue of foreign funding of mosques and that of schools. out of contract.
But "before legislating again we need additional material and human resources to apply the existing", in particular to "strengthen the judicial police" and intelligence resources, he stressed.
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