Fight against Islamism: "there is too much agitation in the government, says Jadot - France 24

Paris (AFP)

Yannick Jadot, MEP EELV, said that in the fight against radical Islamism, there was "too much agitation in the government" Sunday on France Inter, France Info and Le Monde.

"Our first priority today is to fight radical Islamism, without trembling, with intransigence, with firmness," said Mr. Jadot.

But "we will only succeed in fighting the enemies of the Republic if we keep the republican promise".

On the contrary, "if we allow ghettoization in the neighborhoods, economic, social, territorial, religious discrimination to settle and worsen, at that time, all Islamist associations swarm and plague" these neighborhoods.

According to him, "to fight against radical Islamism is also to protect French women and men of Muslim faith or culture".

"Let us keep the republican promise, let us fight firmly against radical Islamism, let us avoid agitations and put a definitive end to all the complacency that there may have been in town halls, with associations, or with this government, like the previous ones , with Saudi Arabia, ”he added.

The MEP also underlined that ministers like Gérald Darmanin (Interior), Bruno Le Maire (Economy) or even Prime Minister Jean Castex had "governed with Nicolas Sarkozy", who "eliminated 13,000 police and gendarmes posts, destabilized all actors in the field on intelligence "or" waged a war in Libya which has armed all the terrorists in the Sahel ".

"So, no lessons from these people who have disarmed us on the question of terrorism. What the French people expect are not the speeches of (Jean-Michel) Blanquer (Minister of National Education) who says that the university will soon be the cradle of Islamist terrorism, it is not the invectives of Gerald Darmanin or the Prime Minister. What they expect is unity and unity and firmness " .

"On the government side, there is too much agitation," he said.

Mr. Jadot also wants "an ideological rearmament on the networks. We have a problem on the networks: 95% of the messages around Islam relate to radical Islamism (...) Let the Salafists hold the social networks, c 'is a serious political mistake, "he said.

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