By Le Figaro with AFP
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The leader of the Insoumis deputies Mathilde Panot protested against the decision of the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet not to increase the number of tributes this Monday afternoon.
The National Assembly observed a minute of silence this Tuesday afternoon in tribute to Philippine, a young student killed ten days ago in Paris, with President Yaël Braun-Pivet expressing “sincere support” from national representation to his loved ones. “This unbearable tragedy has caused a wave of pain and emotion throughout the country. Philippine’s family and loved ones, I want to send our deepest condolences and express our sincere support.declared Yaël Braun-Pivet from the perch.
The deputies then collectively observed a minute of silence, standing in the hemicycle. A tribute was also paid to him in parallel in the Senate, where President Gérard Larcher said he “upset”calling on the national representation to “draw all the consequences of such a tragedy” “We think of her, we think of her family and we think of all the women victims of violence”declared Prime Minister Michel Barnier before beginning his general policy statement.
The minute of silence was decided on Tuesday morning at the conference of presidents at the Assembly, the LFI deputies also asking for a tribute to the French people who died in Lebanon. “I had asked that a minute of silence be organized in tribute to the two French people killed” in recent days by bombings by the Israeli army, declared Mathilde Panot at a press conference.
“Refused by the President of the Assembly”
“This tribute was refused by the President of the Assembly” Yaël Braun-Pivet, “pretending that this afternoon there would already be a tribute to Philippine”added the head of the LFI deputies. “We said we were in favor of this tribute to Philippine”while demanding “that in addition there is a tribute to the 103 women who have died of femicide already this year”continued Mathilde Panot.
More “this cannot explain why there is no tribute for our two compatriots who died in Lebanon”she insisted, reporting that Ms. Braun-Pivet “dared to say (…) that minutes of silence were reserved for great moments of national emotion”. Lebanon, “with a million displaced people” and several hundred deaths, “this apparently does not provoke emotion in the country”lamented Mathilde Panot, emphasizing “how angry this decision makes (her)”. Especially since with “23,000 French in Lebanon, 40,000 Lebanese in France and 700 French peacekeepers” on the border with Israel, “France is directly concerned by what is happening in Lebanon”she said.