Manuel Bompard: “When we pay homage to the dead, the controversy can pass and be put to the side” Five families of victims sent a letter to Emmanuel Macron, asking that the presence of the Mélenchonist movement be “banned” at the ceremony. Despite letters from families, the head of state did not return to the invitation extended to the rebels.

“I said very clearly that neither the methods of action, nor the ideology of Hamas, nor its political project were mine, and that I was fighting them,” he continued.