This November 11, 2024, Jean-Luc Mélenchon chose the Plateau de Millevaches to celebrate the armistice. Around 300 people were present to commemorate the dead of the 1914-18 war and to gather for peace in front of the emblematic and pacifist war memorial of Gentioux-Pigerolles: an orphan with his fist outstretched towards the inscription “Cursed be war”.
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It is no coincidence that the leader of rebellious France, alongside former Creuse LFI MP Catherine Couturier, decided to stop in Gentioux-Pigerolles, this Monday, November 11, 2024, to celebrate the armistice of 1918. Here, he appears on these lands, with his sympathizers, members of pacifist associations, activists of the NPA, of France insoumise who wave their flags around him.
It is in front of this orphan represented, pointing the slogan “Cursed be the warthat the tribune decided to make a speech. A perfectly chosen place to alert the French to the risks of war which threaten, in turn and once again, Europe. “The slogan “Cursed be war” certainly speaks to me. And it should speak to us all, because we are back in a cycle of preparing minds for war, in a way that is all the more distressing as we see the places where events are taking place. At any moment, we could go into something that sends us spiraling into all-out war.”
Jean-Luc Mélenchon denounces the creation of a brand new European commissioner by Ursula Von der Leyen, President of the European Commission. A commissioner dedicated to defense of which the Lithuanian Andrius Kubilius is in charge. For the Insoumis leader, this is not a European competence. For him, the leaders of the European Union are preparing for war, which he denounces: “No national Parliament has ever decided to create such a police station. I do not know how to launch this alert and that is why I asked you for permission to come and do it here, in front of this monument to remind that behind the big sentences at the end, that's death, death, more death! We need a peace commission, not a war one. and if you want peace, prepares peace. There is no other doctrine that can be applied and that can protect us from war.”
Behind the big sentences at the end, that's death, death, more death! We would need a commission for peace, not for war.
Jean-Luc MélenchonLeader of La France insoumise
In front of nearly 300 people, Jean-Luc Mélenchon warned of the dangers of appointing a European defense commissioner: “We are under the threat of war deliberately prepared with plans for military alliances. Because we have never seen nowhere is the false formula, “if you want peace, prepare for war”, no, if you prepare for war, you have war and if you want peace, prepare for peace. There is no other doctrine. which can be applied and which can protect from war.”
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Commemorating the memory of all those killed during the First World War, Jean-Luc Mélenchon turns once again to the Middle East. “As we speak, thousands of women, men and children are being bombed, deliberately, methodically massacred so that by the end of the war they will all be dead. armed intervention taking place there as we speak, the Lebanese are living in terror of the bombs falling and destroying, in entire neighborhoods, the places where the invader thinks the adversaries are hiding…. se squeeze when thinking about it, especially in front of this monument which presents all those who fell in combat.”
He continues to tirelessly denounce the situation in Gaza against which, according to him, not enough voices are protesting: “It’s a massacre, it’s a genocide!”says the politician.
Evoking the war in Ukraine and the election of Donald Trump, he ends with a quote from Jaurès: “Cursed be the system which carries war within itself as the cloud carries the storm.”
