She didn't like yesterday's gatherings. This Wednesday, during the report of the Council of Ministers, government spokesperson Sophie Primas estimated that “dead, even the enemy has the right to respect”.
She was referring here to the rallies which took place Tuesday evening, a few hours after the announcement of the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen. To raise the subject, she used a phrase that the founder of the National Front himself had used during the death of Jacques Chirac.
“I would have liked these demonstrators to find themselves in the streets, as they did ten years ago, to reiterate their attachment to freedom of expression and their support for the fight that we must wage against terrorism,” added the government spokesperson, in reference to the tenth anniversary of the jihadist attack against Charlie Hebdo.
According to the Paris police headquarters, three people were arrested in the capital during a gathering which brought together 650 people at Place de la République. In Lyon, seven people were arrested after a rally at the initiative of the ultra-left, during a “gathering” which formed around 9 p.m.
