Without a mustache, Vincent Lindon climbs to the forehead. While the coronavirus pandemic is hitting France with full force, the 60-year-old actor has decided to reveal his thoughts in broad daylight. On its YouTube channel, Mediapart shared the reading of a letter for almost twenty minutes, in which Lindon does not hesitate to question the choices, the decisions and the behavior of the Élysée Palace and of the government. Without mask or filter.
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"Crossed by the incessant flow of comments, disoriented by the addition of often contradictory analyzes, I tried to reflect on the most banal question: but how did we get there?" asks Vincent Lindon to introduce his point. "Specialist in nothing, interested in everything, it seemed useful to me to contribute by making a simply citizen voice heard" , he underlines, admitting that his legitimacy to analyze is not superior to that of a other.
A specialist in nothing, interested in everything, it seemed useful to me to contribute by making a simply citizen voice heard."How could this country so rich, France, the sixth largest economy in the world, have been able to reverse engineer its hospitals to the point of having to resign itself to being forced into this single solution, to avoid the overcrowding of intensive care services, useful, but medieval, containment? ” , he questions. Once these foundations have been laid, Vincent Lindon begins by summarizing the first three years of Emmanuel Macron's five-year term, raising the controversies and major affairs crossed since the election. Under cover of a fixed observation: "offerings for those who need nothing, sacrifices for those who need everything" . He also highlights "the taste of the new president for the pomp and the rites of the monarchy" , demonstrated according to him from the start of the presidential mandate.
First, the Benalla affair, which shook the Élysée Palace in the summer of 2018. Then the yellow vests crisis, pension reform and, finally, the management of the virus. And the contradictions that go with it. “As the epidemic progresses, becoming a pandemic, power panics, agitates like a headless chicken. What is the executive wondering in the first days of March? But on the maintenance of municipal elections, of course! The day before the first round, the Prime Minister plays the contortionists, inviting the French to stay at home, but, at the same time, to go to vote, ” indignant Vincent Lindon.
As the epidemic progresses, becoming pandemic, the power panics, agitates like a headless chicken.From the "little grippette" to the state of health emergency via the "schizophrenia" of the discourse on the millions of masks in stock. First "useless", then suddenly essential but "vanished" . The actor then dwells on the case of schools and daycare centers after confinement. "Act 1: reopening of crèches and primary schools. Curious since they had been the first to be closed, even before the confinement began, on the grounds that they were a highly favorable place for the spread of the virus . Neither more nor less than a ploy to allow parents to return to work and thus save the economy of the country.
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Vincent Lindon places inequalities at the center of his speech. “Already unbearable, inequalities have exploded with the pandemic. Confined in cramped accommodation or forced to face perils, the most fragile live in terribly difficult days. And their tomorrows don't sing. After the health crisis, they will surely be the first victims of the inevitable economic and social disaster ” .
Reforms to " change the system "
After the admonitions, the time has come for solutions. “Since the State cannot do everything, it seems imperative to innovate. How? 'Or' What ? By asking the biggest fortunes for solidarity with the poorest. This idea, fair and legitimate, could take the form of an exceptional contribution, called “ Jean Valjean” , conceived as a form of assistance to people in danger, financed by the French heritage of more than 10 million euros, without acrobatics, through a progressive tax from 1% to 5%, with a deductible for the first 10 million euros, ” suggests Vincent Lindon.
"Make liable to long years in prison shut down any proven act of corruption by an elected official" , "define dedicated judicial corridors, to avoid judging only corpses" and "greatly increase the remuneration of the men and women who will choose to serve the community with competence, zeal and integrity ” , these are the “ essential ” reforms imagined by the actor to restore a certain equity between the population.
"Even if they do not solve all the problems with which our era is confronted, they seem to me necessary to restore the indispensable confidence of the people in their representatives, finally accountable for their promises as for their action, and responsible for their errors " , He concludes.
A call from Vincent Lindon: "How does this country so rich ..."