Mélenchon sparks uproar by defending “the right to laugh”

“A dead cop means one less vote for the RN”It was about this slogan chanted during demonstrations against the National Rally that the leader of France Insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon declared to the journalist from the M6 ​​news who was interviewing him: “It’s absurd… but we have the right to laugh anyway”. “Not about people dying, of course,” he then tried to qualify. Causing a real outcry on social networks and in public debate.

“Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the far left once again in the infamous and in hatred of the forces of law and order. How can sincere left-wing voters accept this? Spitting on the coffins of our police officers and our gendarmes for a few votes… to vomit”, reacted on X Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior and candidate for his re-election in the legislative elections in the 10th constituency of the North.

“No moral limits”

“He doesn’t respect anything. He doesn’t even hide his hatred of the cop anymore!”also got carried away by the RN MEP and former spokesperson for a police union, Matthieu Valet.

The president of the right-wing nationalist party Jordan Bardella went further by publishing a video on the social network listing the names of several police officers who have died in recent years in the line of duty. “The far left is defending a new right: the right to be able to insult our police officers and laugh at their deaths”, he decided. Slashing: “Mr. Mélenchon and his friends no longer have any moral limits..