The president's words are identical.
"Let us remain united and united,"
said Emmanuel Macron, announcing the reconfinement.
"I call for the unity of all",
he declared the next day in front of the Notre-Dame basilica in Nice.
Health ordeal, terrorist attack: the call for national unity is par excellence the duty and prerogative of the Head of State.
Words are not a magic potion, however.
The horror at the assassination of Samuel Paty in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, Simone Barreto Silva, Nadine Devillers and Simon Loquès in Nice did not prevent questions and criticism on the executive's response to Islamism .
Likewise, global support for the reconfinement system does not prevent misunderstanding and anger at the situation imposed on booksellers and other downtown businesses.
However, should we attribute this impossible unity to the “irresponsibility” of political opponents?
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Rather, the repetition effect must first be taken into account.
The infernal succession of attacks,
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