"I think it is not reasonable to welcome them and that we are still faced there with an inconsistency on the part of the government," denounced the president of the National Rally Marine Le Pen on France Inter about the coming of Juventus Turin supporters in Lyon this Wednesday on the occasion of the Champions League 8th final between the two clubs.
"Supporter of a precautionary principle", the LR deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti judged on Cnews that it would have been necessary at least "to prohibit" their arrival, denouncing a management "totally irresponsible" and "a form of inconsistency ": Children returning from Italy are quarantined but we" bring at least 3,000 people "from" a very high risk area ". On the left, Ségolène Royal estimated on France 2 that this decision "seems incoherent" and that "opinion does not understand it".
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"Perhaps the government has information that in any case the public does not have, but I think that to avoid triggering panic, we must consider that the French people are mature, that they have the capacity to understand, provided that he has the feeling that he is being told "things," insisted the former socialist presidential candidate of 2007. Government and majority defended the decision.
"Today, health watch and public health experts say it is not necessary" to ban the arrival of supporters, said BFMTV Gabriel Attal, Secretary of State to the Minister of National Education. "Is the virus actively circulating in Turin? No. Is it actively circulating in the Turin region? No, "he argued.
"Political instrumentalization"
Aurore Bergé, MP and spokesperson for LREM, argues that the instructions given on both sides of the Italian border are the same, namely "do not travel or stay in isolation" depending on the symptoms, and that 'There is no reason why people should be less reasonable and why instructions should be given less' in Italy. As for the boss of LREM, Stanislas Guerini, he refuses to comment, deeming that it is up to "health authorities", and not politicians, to decide.
"When you face a virus, a pandemic, you have to have a spirit of responsibility and I believe that politicians must respect what the scientific authorities say," he argued on BFM Business. Mr. Attal deemed "very serious" the words of Marine Le Pen, who had called on Tuesday to restore border controls, seeing "a political instrumentalization" on the part of the president of the RN whose "bottom of trade" is , according to him, "the fear and the worries of the French".
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