The director and actor Mathieu Kassovitz, questioned on LCI about the possible coming to power of the RN, made ironic remarks, widely reported, on the opportunity to “try” the far-right party.
Is this irony, fatalism? Mathieu Kassovitz, director known for his commitment against the far right, but also for his sweeping remarks, delivered a surprising analysis of the political situation in France on Saturday on LCI, estimating that “perhaps the FN has its place in France.
“For all the idiots, imbeciles, assholes who use the same propaganda tools as the fascists and accuse me of having declared to vote RN. Here is a larger extract from this interview,” published Mathieu Kassovitz on Instagram.
Mathieu Kassovitz explains in particular that he would “necessarily vote to the left” if he voted and that he has “never understood the people who vote for the National Front”.
In the extract often relayed truncated on social networks since Saturday, the director of Hatecoward:
“I have always been waiting for the arrival of the FN (editor’s note: the National Front, the former name of the National Rally), to see what the real reaction of the French is, and are we really the country of human rights or have we become something else”.
“It’s also interesting,” he continues. “Because maybe we have become something else. And we have to accept that too. Maybe the FN has its place in France and maybe they will do a better job. In any case it’s perhaps an experiment to try. I think we’ll never know who we are if we haven’t gone through that stage (…) I think that at some point we’re going to change.”
“I am for violence in the face of violence”
At the start of the interview, journalist Darius Rochebin asks Mathieu Kassovitz if he plans to go demonstrate, if “tomorrow the RN wins”.
“I’m tired of demonstrating,” replies Mathieu Kassovitz. “It’s the same circus all the time. There is an action, a reaction. Demonstrating, I’m not really for it, I’m going to get myself into trouble, but… I’m for violence in the face of violence.”
The director and actor, who participated in a clip in 2017 to raise awareness of the reception of migrants for the CNR (Collective for a Refuge Nation), has long campaigned for the blank vote to be counted. In 2017, however, he called for abstention and blank voting to be renounced and to vote for Emmanuel Macron in the second round of the presidential election, where the candidate faced Marine Le Pen.
Mathieu Kassovitz also spoke a lot about police violence, upon the release of Hatein 1995, film about the story of a police blunder.
