Compatibility of Islam with the Republic, clash over the Vel 'd'Hiv roundup ...: the presidential candidate Eric Zemmour and the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire engaged in a heated debate on the state on Thursday of the country, its history and their conception of the nation.

Technical and generally courteous on the economic side, the discussions rose in tone about Islam and French identity. Bruno Le Maire criticized Eric Zemmour for sending a "slap in the face to French citizens" Muslims asking them to "choose between Islam and France". He underlined "the urgent need to fight" against Mr. Zemmour and "the extreme right".

Eric Zemmour felt for his part to offer a "helping hand" to the French Muslims for "that they assimilate the history of France and French mores".

According to him, “Islam is not just a faith, it is also a code, Islamic laws.

I say that you have to choose between Islamic laws, the code, the Sharia and the Republic ”.

A follower of the conspiracy theory of the “great replacement” of European populations by immigrants, he said “not to be of the extreme right”, but to wish “France to remain France”.

He criticized Bruno Le Maire for “not seeing the demographic and political reality” of the country.

"I'm not a pétainiste", assures Zemmour

The debate was even more heated on the history of France during the Occupation.

Bruno Le Maire accused Eric Zemmour of "rehabilitating the Vichy regime", of making "Pétain the defender of French Jews".

"You should cry rather than defend the Vichy regime", he said, asking Eric Zemmour if he would be ready to take up the speech of the Vel d'Hiv by Jacques Chirac, in 1995, to recognize the responsibility. of the French State in the deportation of the Jews.

"I am not a Pétainist", "I am absolutely not rehabilitating the Vichy regime", but "France was in London" with "General de Gaulle", therefore "France has no responsibility in the roundup of the Vel 'd'Hiv, it was the Germans who imposed it, ”said Eric Zemmour, who would not“ remake ”the speech of Jacques Chirac, he said.

“I am horrified by what I heard.

René Bousquet, Paris police prefect, and Pierre Laval all knowingly and voluntarily participated "in the deportation" and not under the orders of the Nazi regime, "replied the minister.

The mayor of Vichy, Frédéric Aguilera, denounced on Twitter the refusal of Eric Zemmour "to admit the responsibility of the French State in the deportation of the Jews.

This is the demonstration and the devastating effect of the use of the expression "Vichy regime".

This expression is synonymous with '' it is Vichy, it is not France '' "

Eric Zemmour's far-right rival, Marine Le Pen, had already provoked a controversy in 2017 by asserting during the presidential campaign that "France is not responsible for the Vel d'Hiv", in 1942.

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