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“No one escapes October 7”: emotion in Paris in tribute to the victims
“No one escapes October 7”: emotion was strong Monday evening at the rally organized in Paris by Crif in memory of the victims, but where the mention of LFI was copiously hissed. Some 4,000 people responded to the call from the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif) for this tribute ceremony organized in the Dome room (15th) one year after the Hamas attack against Israel. The evening began on a serious tone, with the screening of videos on the founding and history of Israel until the Nova festival on October 7, followed by screenshots and voice messages sent by participants at the time of the attack: “they are everywhere”, ” they kidnap people”….A minute of silence was then observed by the standing room, during this ceremony mixing speeches and serious evocation of the victims to the sound of the cello. Then speaking, the president of Crif Yonathan Arfi hammered : “Nothing and no one escapes October 7” because “this day remains forever tainted by the blood of the victims”. In this speech, he resumed his charge against LFI which he sent back to the “camp of dishonor” , while the room booed Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s movement copiously. “LFI chooses to hysterize our public debate, by cultivating clientelism and identity assignments. So I say it this evening, with seriousness, that LFI still finds allies within the Republican left is an outrage, a betrayal,” he said, his voice covered by the lazzis. Former President François Hollande also received a few whistles when Yonathan Arfi thanked him for his presence. Many personalities had made the trip: in addition to the head of government and several ministers, the regional presidents Valérie Pécresse and Xavier Bertrand, the much applauded Nicolas Sarkozy, the. writer Bernard-Henri Lévy, actress Sandrine Kiberlain, designer Joann Sfar…The intervention of Prime Minister Michel Barnier also aroused a few whistles when he assured the commitment of the Head of State and of the government to protect French people of Jewish faith – even if almost the entire room stood up at the end of his speech. A few cries of “arms, weapons” also rang out during his speech, a direct allusion to the remarks by Head of State Emmanuel Macron in favor of stopping deliveries to Israel of weapons that could be used in the war in Gaza. – Yellow Ribbon – Remarks that were highly noticed, and widely deplored, in the Jewish community.”C “is aberrant, a shame,” Edmond Sinelnikoff, 75, told AFP in the queue at the Dome where he arrived very early. As for the French president’s commitment to do everything possible to the release of the hostages, “it took a year!”, exclaims Benjamin Amar-Rozowykwiat, 25, near him, a yellow ribbon on his wrist in solidarity with the hostages. These hostages, “we have the impression that they were forgotten”, he affirms, ensuring that after October 7 “any Jew felt deeply attacked, and it brought back buried memories”. Coming in “solidarity” even if it is not Jewish herself, Louise, 28, believes that “everyone should be there”. “I would like to see unconcerned people revolt,” she adds, “regretting” the silence of certain feminists, as if “because the victims are Jewish it is less important.” The unprecedented attack of Hamas on October 7 in Israel, led to the death of 1,205 people, the majority civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli figures, including hostages who died or were killed in captivity in the Gaza Strip. Of the 251 people kidnapped then, 97 are still hostages in Gaza, including 34 considered dead. More than 41,870 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli military campaign of retaliation on the Gaza Strip, the majority civilians, according to ministry data of Health of the Hamas government for Gaza, deemed reliable by the UN.cg/ito/dch
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