“we feel in danger”

POLICY – “We feel in danger. » The leader of rebellious France Jean-Luc Mélenchon deplored on Tuesday, November 12 evening a political-media atmosphere “rotten” in France, according to him “created from scratch so that it ends badly” for the Insoumis, regularly accused of anti-Semitism.

“The rotten atmosphere is when the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau attacks Insoumis parliamentarians to accuse them of anti-Semitism”he said in a video published on his YouTube channel, while Bruno Retailleau announced that he had reported to the courts the tweet of an LFI deputy, Marie Mesmeur.

The latter had written on X that Maccabi Tel-Aviv supporters were attacked Thursday evening in the Netherlands “because they were racist and supported genocide”. Before denouncing, on social networks, a wave of hatred and intimidation.

Mélenchon accuses Retailleau

For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, “anyone who opposes the genocidal policies of Benjamin Netanyahu is immediately accused of anti-Semitism”. The three-time presidential candidate in turn emphasizes that Marie Mesmeur is “Insulted daily on social networks and taken to task”which “several of us had to change our phone number because we were harassed day and night”and that “some were physically pushed around and then threatened with death”.

“We feel in danger”he warns, also mentioning death threats against deputies Aymeric Caron, Louis Boyard and Thomas Portes. The latter notably received threats by mail to the National Assembly, targeting him and his family. “You have family, they will get acid in the mouth” “then you will take a bullet […] creves [sic] », was written in this missive.

The founder of the radical left formation “requests that we consider the level of violence which has been reached against us and which is relayed by officials such as Bruno Retailleau. » Addressing Internet users, Jean-Luc Mélenchon asked them “not to participate in this atmosphere in any way”ensuring that “the Insoumis deputies keep moderation in everything they say”.

“We must play a role, which consists, while maintaining the firmness of our positions, in not participating in or giving rise to the escalation that our adversaries would like to provoke to the detriment of our country”he explained.

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