Before the Prime Minister’s general policy declaration, the deputies observed a minute of silence this Tuesday afternoon in tribute to Philippine, a young 19-year-old student killed ten days ago in the Bois de Boulogne, in Paris. “We think of her, we think of her family and we think of all the women victims of violence,” declared Michel Barnier at the end of this moment of contemplation.
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On the other hand, the deputies did not pay tribute to the two French people killed in Lebanon, which France Insoumise (LFI) deplored. “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, Mathilde Panot declared at a press conference. “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.
No tribute for the French killed in Lebanon
“We said that we were in favor of this tribute to Philippine”, while demanding “that in addition there be a tribute to the 103 women who have already died of femicide this year”, continued Mathilde Panot. But “this cannot explain why there is no tribute for our two compatriots who died in Lebanon”, she insisted, reporting that Yaël 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 does not apparently provoke emotion in the country”, lamented Mathilde Panot, emphasizing “how angry this decision makes (her)” . Especially since with “23,000 French people 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,” he said. she asserted.
