The socialist candidate in the first constituency of Deux-Sèvres, Nathalie Lanzi, recalls that “anti-Semitism is poison” and announces that she has filed a complaint after the discovery of damage to a banner.
Le Figaro Bordeaux
The legislative elections of June 30 and July 7 are historic, because they could see the victory of the National Rally. Members of the New Popular Front (NFP), neck and neck with the RN, denounce a release of violence since the European elections of June 9, as evidenced by the attack on an environmentalist by far-right activists in Bordeaux on June 21. In Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the inscription of a swastika and a Star of David on the banner of the NFP candidates outraged many elected officials from the left and environmentalists.
The damaged banner mentioned the names of the socialist Nathalie Lanzi and the communist Frédéric Mousson, candidate and substitute of the NFP in the first constituency of Deux-Sèvres. Nathalie Lanzi “strongly condemns the very serious degradation” of this banner, recalling that “respect for the Republic and its values is an imperative that must be imposed on everyone” and “anti-Semitism is poison”This attack is part of a climate of freedom of hateful and racist speech, which, according to some, is linked to the fact that nearly a hundred candidates invested by the RN have made openly racist, anti-Semitic or homophobic remarks.
An “anti-Semitic infamy”
“Racism and xenophobia are foreign to the very notion of humanity”written about X Alain Rousset, socialist president of New Aquitaine, saying “stunned” et “horrified” by these degradations, by denouncing a “anti-Semitic infamy”The socialist president of the Occitanie region Carole Delga also brings her “full support” to the targeted candidates, deploring “ignoble degradations which sully the Republic and democracy”The socialist mayor of Rouen, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, speaks of“filthy filth” Who “will not go unpunished”. The co-president of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine environmental group, Christine Seguinau, shows her support for the candidates and recalls that the RN “these are just threats to our freedoms”.
The local delegations of the Socialist Party and the Communist Party have not remained silent either. The PS mentions “amazement and disgust”recalling that “in a worrying context of the rise of the extreme right, with the increase in racist acts, we must more than ever mobilize to stem these calls for hatred”. The PCF, for its part, asserts that it “will not be intimidated by the fascists”. In this constituency, the Macronist deputy Bastien Marchive was elected with only a few hundred votes ahead of the Nupes candidate in 2022. But two years later, the left – which achieved a good score in the European elections despite the breakthrough of the RN – could well get his revenge.
