The mayor of Nice said this Tuesday, November 26 on CNews his intention to file a complaint against the two LFI deputies for “intelligence with the enemy” and “apology of terrorism”.
Christian Estrosi does not hide his disenchantment with La France insoumise. Guest on CNews this Tuesday, November 26, Mayor Horizons of Nice described parliamentarians Ugo Bernalicis and Éric Coquerel as “enemies, not of the Republic (but) of the nation”.
The reason for the anger of the vice-president of the party: the bill proposed by the rebels, who wish to repeal the offense of advocating terrorism from the penal code and reinstate it in press law. “It’s not credible,” railed Christian Estrosi, who shares the almost generalized indignation of the political class – including the Socialist Party.
A deep fissure within the New Popular Front? This is what the mayor of Nice thinks he is observing. “I see more and more left-wing groups, including the Communist Party and Fabien Roussel, who say very clearly that they will never want to participate in political action alongside LFI,” he explained.
“A form of betrayal”
This bill signed by Ugo Bernalicis was sent to the office of the National Assembly on November 19 – without being registered in the parliamentary niche of rebels – and has been agitating political life for several days already.
But a new step was taken this Tuesday before the announcement by Christian Estrosi of a complaint against the MP and his colleague as president of the Finance Commission.
“Personally, I am announcing it to you this morning, I am going to file a complaint for 'intelligence with the enemy', 'apology of terrorism' against Mr. Bernalicis and Mr. Coquerel”, announced the mayor of Nice, ensuring that he sees “a form of treason” in the attitude of the two left-wing politicians.
“Who does not consider like me that they are enemies, not of the Republic, but of the nation? The French nation, that has meaning!”, insisted the councilor.
La France insoumise does not have the will to eliminate the offense of glorifying terrorism, as Mathilde Panot, the leader of the group's deputies, clarified on BFMTV. She assures that it is rather a question of “putting” this offense “in the right place” in the millefeuille of French law, to avoid abusive prosecutions.
