Europe 1 with AFP / Photo credits: Ludovic MARIN / AFP 16:49 pm, June 08, 2023

The parliamentary oppositions accuse Thursday the boss of the deputies Renaissance Aurore Bergé to "recover" the drama of Annecy. The deputy of the tenth constituency of Yvelines asked that "humanity" take precedence over the debates on pensions, while the Assembly debated the proposal to repeal retirement at 64.

The boss of the deputies Renaissance Aurore Bergé was accused Thursday by the oppositions of "recovering" the drama of Annecy, after asking that "humanity" take over the debates on pensions. The stabbing attack, which left six people injured, including four children, came as the National Assembly was debating a proposal to repeal retirement at age 64.

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A debate "totally out of step with the fright", says Bergé

"To be at the moment in the hemicycle with a kind of battle of ragpickers on the admissibility or not of amendments seems to us in total disconnect with the terror that in my opinion overwhelms our country," said Aurore Bergé (presidential party). "We want to express our total solidarity, that our thoughts today are only with the families and those who are by their side," she added. And to insist: "This is today what we should remember, to have humanity".

The oppositions who were fighting in the hemicycle on pensions reacted strongly to these remarks. "Aurore Bergé has long had expressions that are beyond shame" and "instrumentalizes everything she can," denounced the boss of the PS Olivier Faure. "Aurore Bergé no longer has any limit in the disgusting instrumentalization," taunted on Twitter the president of the LFI group Mathilde Panot. "Do you still have a Renaissance honor?" also asked ecologist Sandrine Rousseau.

On the far right, Caroline Parmentier (RN) criticised a "total indecency". "The barbaric act that targeted children in Annecy has taken place for less than two hours that the macronists instrumentalize it against the Liot bill on pension reform," also denounced RN deputy Philippe Ballard. According to him, "Aurore Bergé personifies indignity, indecency and stupidity".

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Many MPs denounced the Annecy attack

But according to the entourage of the person concerned, his reaction "is that of a mother who feels a deep gap between the sound and fury of the hemicycle and the calm and dignity that must embrace us all". "Those who are indignant see in his statement their own turpitudes," the same source added.

Many MPs from all sides denounced the Annecy attack, and the Assembly observed a minute's silence, a brief truce during the stormy session.