Vaucluse. MP Raphaël Arnault describes Israeli supporters as “far-right hooligans” and sparks a controversy

Since the ultra-violent lynching of Israeli supporters this Thursday in Amsterdam, international disapproval has been unanimous. In France, indignation also seems very widely shared. From President Macron to Marine Le Pen via the rebellious Manuel Bompard, we denounce the unacceptable. With just one vote, that of the New Popular Front deputy from Avignon, Raphaël Arnault, who once again marks his difference and opens a controversy even in the ranks of the left.

In a tweet, published this Friday, November 8 in the morning which already has a million views, the Vaucluse parliamentarian accuses the latter of provocations. “When you follow football, Maccabi Tel-Aviv supporters are renowned for harboring the biggest fringes of far-right, racist and violent hooligans (…) Yesterday in Amsterdam, they did not come to pick daffodils » he writes on the social network

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Since then, the far-right press, which has made the “triple S” MP its Turkish head, has been unleashed. But the remarks arouse unease even within the ranks of his own camp. “It becomes worrying when a deputy justifies the use of violence on the theme, they were looking for it”, indignant his socialist colleague, Jérôme Guedj.

Earlier in the day, it was the ecologist Sandrine Rousseau who reacted strongly. “But it’s okay to justify violence like that? » published the Paris MP on her social networks, shocked that it was suggested that Israeli supporters could have provoked. More nuanced, the national speaker of France Insoumise, Manuel Bompard, declared that “if there have been attacks (…) they are unacceptable” not without specifying that images of racist provocations by Israeli supporters have also circulated.