A history professor was beheaded on Friday in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine in the Yvelines, by a young man of Chechen origin.
Subsequently, LFI deputy Jean-Luc Mélenchon castigated this community, believing that there was "a problem" with it.
An amalgam denounced by Naïm, himself Chechen, on Europe 1.
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"I think there is a problem with the Chechen community in France."
This sentence, released by LFI deputy Jean-Luc Mélenchon on LCI on Sunday, was a reaction to the assassination, two days earlier, of Professor Samuel Paty in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.
He was in fact beheaded by a young man of 18, born in Moscow but of Chechen origin.
If his co-deputy Adrien Quatennens has since recognized an "error" with this formulation, it has not failed to react.
Politicians, but also members of this community, like Naïm.
On Europe 1, he says he "did not find [these words] very reassuring".
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"We didn't want that"
"From the act of a single man, Jean-Luc Mélenchon speaks of the whole community, accuses us all when we did not foresee that and that we did not want it", regrets- he does.
"I have the impression that the population is afraid of us, as if we were a warrior people who do not accept progress, the values of secularism."
Naïm continues: "We are of Chechen origin but we also remain French citizens. We would just like to live in France quietly, practicing our religion on our side without showing it in public."
Assures him "to respect secularism, freedom of expression, all that. What [the killer] did is not what we want to represent, it's not what we represent."