Attacks of November 13: Eric Zemmour accuses François Hollande and provokes indignation
Visiting the Made in France fair this Sunday, November 14, Eric Zemmour maintained his controversial remarks.
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As France commemorated the sixth anniversary of the November 13 attacks, Eric Zemmour sparked a new controversy by going to the Bataclan and implicating former President François Hollande.
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He persists and signs.
Visiting the Made in France fair this Sunday in Paris, Éric Zemmour reiterated his remarks made the day before on the sidelines of the commemorations of the November 13 attacks.
"
I made remarks on the reality of the policy of François Hollande and his predecessors which I maintain
", reaffirmed the polemicist at the microphone of our journalist
Valérie Gas
.
“
And I maintain that paying homage to the victims is also to stop only lamenting, lighting candles.
We must also explain what we are going to do
”.
Faced with the "
war of civilization
" that he thinks he sees, Éric Zemmour affirms: "
We must stop going to bed
."
The one who is preparing his candidacy for the presidential election went Saturday evening in front of the concert hall of the Bataclan, where 90 people had been killed on November 13, 2015 by a terrorist commando. François Hollande "
knew that there would be terrorists and did not protect the French and made a criminal decision to leave the borders open,
" he told reporters. Already on Friday, during a trip to Bordeaux, he maintained that "
the authorities were aware of the danger and he preferred that the French die rather than preventing" migrants "from coming to France
".
These remarks provoked outrage.
First targeted, François Hollande strongly protested against "
unfounded, indecent and unworthy
" statements.
"The terrorists of November 13 came from Belgium, they are Belgian or French," said the former president this Sunday on Radio J, recalling the measures taken to "
control arrivals from outside
" the European Union.
"
It is indecent to be in front of the Bataclan, to speak of a war of civilization in front of the building itself
" while taking up "
the very language of the terrorists
", he also noted.
"Word of acrobat"
The then Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, denounced "
lies (...) the sole purpose of which is to sow doubt and hatred
". Among other elected members of the presidential majority, the vice-president of the National Assembly Hughes Renson, for his part, described Eric Zemmour's
speech as
“the
word of a dirty and unworthy mountebank of our country
”. "
Nobody wants to hear this type of words in a moment of contemplation,
" also declared the Minister for Citizenship Marlène Schiappa.
Marion Maréchal, niece of Marine Le Pen and friend of Eric Zemmour, said for her part that she did not believe "
at any time that there was the intention of François Hollande to cause the death of anyone
" , while accusing him of "
criminal irresponsibility
". The interim president of the National Gathering, Jordan Bardella, criticized him for a “
form of indecency
” on the part of Eric Zemmour with his statements in front of the “
martyr place
” of the Bataclan. However, he felt that François Hollande had a “
responsibility
” in the “
increase
” of “
terrorism
” because of his migration policy.
"
The victims of November 13 will not be Eric Zemmour's footstep
," responded the Life for Paris association in a press release.
"
He decided to do what no politician had dared until now: make political remarks in front of the Bataclan on a night of commemoration,
" she wrote.
Political recovery of the attacks: the victims of November 13 will not be Eric Zemmour's stepping stone.
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- Life for Paris (@lifeforparis) November 14, 2021
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