Violence in Amsterdam: “I found my party’s reactions to the verbal excesses that took place after this match to be quite weak,” tackles Patrick Kanner

France-Israel match: “It’s important to be there”

This Thursday, as part of the Nations Football League, a match will take place between the French football team and the Israeli team. This meeting comes a few days after the violence which took place against Israeli supporters during a match between Maccabi Tel-Aviv and Ajax Amsterdam. Emmanuel Macron will be present Thursday evening at the Stade de France. For Patrick Kanner, former Minister of Sports, “it is important to be there”, because “what happened in Amsterdam in recent days is totally unworthy and dangerous […]this match is not an accident.

Laurent Nunez, Paris police chief, announced the implementation of an “unusual” security system for Thursday evening. 4,000 police officers and gendarmes will be mobilized, in parallel with 1,600 security agents within the Stade de France and “extremely reinforced” control. Yesterday, Israeli authorities asked Israeli fans not to attend the match. The senator questions this decision: “Is it acceptable for sport to become a security issue for supporters who try to forget the misfortune that may exist in their territory? “.

“We find a refrain [chez la France insoumise] which is quite repugnant towards this conflict and towards Israel”

The president of the socialist group in the Senate denounced the reactions of certain elected officials from La France insoumise, notably that of Marie Mesmeur, La France insoumise MP from 1^era constituency of Ille et Vilaine who reacted to the violence taking place in Amsterdam by declaring on X/Twitter, “These people were not lynched because they were Jewish, but because they were racist and ‘They were supporting genocide.’

In general, the senator from the North sees in the members of La France insoumise “a refrain, which is quite repugnant with regard to this conflict and with regard to Israel”. He specifies that he “regrets this type of excess, and that the left is not clear enough about this type of speaking out”. The president of the socialist group also attacks the leaders of his own party: “I think that the Socialist Party must denounce this type of verbal abuse which can hide something else, and in this context, I found The reactions of my party, of those in charge at the highest level, to the verbal excesses in relation to this match were rather weak.