Sophia Chikirou, the usual suspect wrongly accused of having disrupted the tribute to MP René Couanau – Libération

If a “We don’t care” was indeed launched in the hemicycle while Michel Barnier spoke, it was neither by the member for Paris nor on the subject of the death of the former mayor of Saint-Malo.

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If you watch the sessions in the Assembly at the moment, you will undoubtedly have noticed a certain tension in the air. No, but even more than usual, we mean. This was illustrated on Tuesday December 3 during questions to the government. After an intervention by the president of the coco group, André Chassaigne, Michel Barnier spoke and paid tribute to René Couanau, former UMP deputy and mayor of Saint-Malo, who died on November 30. “A very long time ago, I was a member of the same ministerial cabinet as him – he was my chief of staff to the Minister of Youth and Sports,” launched the Prime Minister before a loud hubbub interrupted him. It bellows, it screams, it gets angry from the right towards the left. President Braun-Pivet cuts off the Prime Minister and intervenes: “We are talking about the memory of a man who has just passed away, Madam Deputy. It’s scandalous!”

“Who can imagine being indifferent to the death of a human being?”

Initially – and for a long time – many commentators and politicians accused Sophia Chikirou of having uttered derogatory words. The deputy from Paris, with a more than sulphurous character, is an ideal suspect. In this pre-censorship motion atmosphere, po