Once again, the treatment of the recent French attacks made by the American newspaper The New York Times and other Anglo-Saxon press titles are not to the taste of Emmanuel Macron.
On November 4 already, he had published an open letter to the editorial staff of the Financial Times, regretting that this reference media had changed his words by quoting him.
This time, the French president accuses them of "legitimizing" the violence because of their lack of understanding of the French context.
"When France was attacked five years ago, all the nations of the world supported us," said Emmanuel Macron, quoted in the French version of an article published Sunday evening on the New York Times website.
"And when I see, in this context, many newspapers which I think come from countries which share our values, write about our country - natural child of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution - say that the heart of the problem, it is that France is racist and Islamophobic, I say: the fundamentals are lost ", adds the French president.
"Impose their own values"
In the same article, New York Times reporter Ben Smith writes that Emmanuel Macron accuses the English-speaking media, and the American media in particular, of seeking "to impose their own values on a different society".
He reproaches them, again according to Mr. Smith, for not understanding "laïcité à la française - an active separation of Church and State which dates from the beginning of the 20th century".
France has suffered three jihadist attacks in recent weeks: a stabbing attack at the end of September which left two wounded near the former premises of the weekly Charlie Hebdo, the beheading, on October 16, of the history and geography professor Samuel Paty who had worked with his students on the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published by Charlie Hebdo, and a knife attack that left three dead at the end of October in a basilica in Nice (south-east).
After the assassination of Samuel Paty, Emmanuel Macron had expressed his support for the freedom to caricature and his government had launched a series of legal and administrative procedures against French Muslim associations suspected of appeasement with radical Islamism.
As a result, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused him of defending blasphemy against Islam, and called on his fellow citizens to boycott French products.
With AFP
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