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Communication blow on the backs of the most precarious
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ridiculous
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pathetic
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to throw up
"... Internet users went wild this week in reaction to an operation organized by the Droit au logement association to which eight left-wing deputies participated – five rebels and three ecologists – including Mathilde Panot and Sandrine Rousseau.
The latter slept in a tent during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday to raise awareness of the cause of poor housing.
As the thermometer dropped below 0°C on Tuesday evening, the elected officials appeared in their tent, in tricolor scarves, with their fists raised, chanting slogans against Emmanuel Macron's housing policy.
The images, widely distributed on social networks, sparked an outcry.
Internet users were moved by a “
ridiculous staging
”, pointing out in particular that the tents where the deputies were installed were located inside a barnum.
The youth movement of the presidential party, Les Jeunes avec Macron, published a photo where we see the rebellious deputies Mathilde Panot and Ugo Bernalicis, seated in a brasserie located opposite the encampment, where they admitted having gone on evening of the operation.
The left-wing parliamentarians justified their participation in this operation to our colleagues at
Libération
.
“We did not do it in hypocrisy, we did not do it to live an immersive experience, to live as poor people in the place of the poor, but to attract media attention
,” explained LFI deputy from the North Ugo Bernalicis, present at the camp Tuesday evening.
“People are dying in the street, and what interests the Macronists is to know where we drink coffee
,” added Mathilde Panot.