Several left-wing leaders denounced the reaction – too laudatory in their eyes – of François Bayrou to the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, described as “figure of political life” and instigator of “controversies” by the Prime Minister.
“Jean-Marie Le Pen is dead. It was not just “a figure of French political life” as François Bayrou reacts. Respect for the deceased should not lead to blindness along the way. Jean-Marie Le Pen was a racist and [un] notorious anti-Semite, worshiper of Pétain, and torturer in Algeria »wrote on social networks the leader of the MEPs of La France insoumise, Manon Aubry.
“Racism, hatred of Muslims, anti-Semitism are not controversies. These are offenses punishable by law.”added MP (LFI) Paul Vannier.
“Beyond the controversies which were his favorite weapon and the necessary confrontations on the merits, Jean-Marie Le Pen will have been a figure in French political life. We knew, by fighting him, what a fighter he was”Mr. Bayrou had written a little earlier on X.
“He was a racist. An anti-Semite. A colonialist. A nostalgic for the Vichy regime. An anti-feminist… A repeat offender who founded the FN with the SS. Not a figure in French political life »supported the general secretary of the Socialist Party, Pierre Jouvet.
“It is not a question of controversies, but of convictions for racist, anti-Semitic and Holocaust denial remarks”for his part estimated the spokesperson for the French Communist Party, Ian Brossat, describing the Prime Minister’s message as ” pathetic “.
