The Minister of the Interior attacked Tuesday evening on BFMTV the shelves of halal or kosher products in department stores.

"This is how communitarianism begins," said Gerald Darmanin, who also called "capitalism" to be "from time to time patriotic".

Since his appointment to the Ministry of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin has made the fight against separatism one of his battle horses.

This is even more true since the terrible assassination of Samuel Paty, Friday in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, by an Islamist terrorist.

Tuesday evening, the host of Place Beauvau developed at length his vision of action to put an end to communitarianism.

"Me it always shocked me to arrive in a hypermarket and to see a section of such or such community kitchen and such other next door", notably blurted out Gérald Darmanin.

The exit may seem surprising, but the phenomenon is anything but insignificant, according to him: "This is how communitarianism begins, I think."

In the minister's viewfinder are businesses, more than consumers.

"Whether you go to a kosher or halal hypermarket to buy products, anyone can do it. Where is the problem?" He said.

"But these large French companies which have organized direct marketing, in my opinion, they did not speak to a type of population because they wanted to offer them such or such respectable consumption, but because they had want to earn money on communitarianism. And me, personally, that shocks me. If we can hold politicians to account, we can also say to capitalism that it can be patriotic from time to time ", attacked Gérald Darmanin.

"It is not because we have market share by flattering some base instincts that we have rendered service to the common good"

Because the Minister of the Interior has broadened his remarks beyond simple supermarkets.

"French capitalism, global capitalism have a responsibility," he said.

"When we sell community clothes, maybe we have a small responsibility in communitarianism. When we lend money to very community associations or businesses, maybe there is a small responsibility. ", hammered Gerald Darmanin.

"There are people in civil society who must understand that it is not because we have market share by flattering a few low instincts that we have rendered service to the common good," insisted the former mayor. from Tourcoing.

"I call on business leaders that they too can contribute to public peace and to the fact that we can fight separatism."