The honour of politics is to fight violence, not to stir it up or encourage it. Words and threats are dropped in the public sphere without any restraint.
But these words slumber and make do in the least constructed minds who end up taking them literally and taking action. We no longer just insult, we now strike, writes Nicolas Charbonneau, director of the editors of L'Humanité. The editor-in-chief of the magazine, he says: 'We need to stop the use of language as a weapon of war'