Head of the LFI deputies Mathilde Panot denounced on the RMC-BFM set an "extremely serious attack on democracy." The day after the ban by prefectural decree of a conference planned in Lille (North) around LFI Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Rima Hassan on the Palestinian question, Panot estimated that "there was a serious democratic problem in France. " "What should shock all democrats in this country is that the opposition cannot hold political meetings, especially during the electoral campaign," said the head of LFI lists in the European elections Manon Aubry on the Télématin set.
"I don't know if we properly measure the threshold that has just been crossed," reacted a little earlier this Friday morning, the leader of the French Socialist Party (PS) in the National Assembly, Jean-Yves Le Drian. The prefect justified its decision taken at the beginning of Thursday afternoon by "calls for mobilization launched by several organizations, which could have led to "gatherings, crowds, and clashes on public roads, in a climate of increased geopolitical tensions."