“We are going to bring together the cults to find out if they are ready to make an effort. If they are not, there will be an exception“, declared the former vice-president of the National Assembly at the microphone of Radio J. A change of perspective for the RN, whose leader Marine Le Pen has in the past taken a position against ritual slaughter without dizziness.
This is the second time that a member of the National Front or National Rally has been invited on this channel, Jewish community radio reported, after Louis Aliot in October 2022.
“Everyone can continue to eat kosher if that is their wish.“, argued Sébastien Chenu referring to “thethe possibility of importation (of meat from ritual slaughter without stunning) and the possibility of continuing this slaughter without stunning within a religious framework“.
Confirming that this slaughter could be done “In France“, he added that a procedure “labeling and traceability” would be put in place. “We will know which animal is slaughtered, according to which ritual, it’s normal“, he argued.
Asked about the wearing of the kippah in public spaces, which the far right wanted to ban in the past in the same way as the veil, Sébastien Chenu postponed the debate until later, believing that the priority was to fight “facing Islamist ideology“.
“Once we have, I hope, pushed back Salafism in France, Brotherhood in France, well we will see where we are with the wearing of the veil, with the wearing of the kippah in public spaces.“, he added. “But that’s for after the presidential elections“, he clarified.
