“We remember that man is capable of invading, of attacking civilians, children. We have the impression that we have to wait for Ukraine to realize this. (...) I am surprised that people are so affected. Does that mean that when it's in Africa you are less affected?"»
According to Omar Sy, the French would feel more affected by the conflict unfolding at the gates of Europe than those raging on the African continent .
While promoting
Tirailleurs
, in theaters on Wednesday January 4, a film which traces the disastrous fate of the Senegalese soldiers sent to Verdun in 1917 and whose story is often unknown to the general public, the actor gave an interview to Parisian .
In his commitment to a story close to his heart, Omar Sy goes even further.
“When it's far away, we say to ourselves that over there, they are savages, we don't do that anymore.
Like the Covid, at the beginning, we said it was only the Chinese, ”
he adds.
A reductive statement?
In any case, it triggered many reactions.
The former Minister for European Affairs and MEP protested against this argument which would like the French to be less affected by what is happening in Africa, recalling on Twitter that 59 French soldiers died in the Sahel.
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For his part, Charles Consigny, in the “Grandes Gueules” on RMC quipped:
“He is a tax exile, maybe he is not affected by the poverty of the French!”
“These are all these stories that must be accepted and recognized,”
he explained on the RTL set.
This history "lesson" given by Omar Sy goes badly, especially since he bases the promotion of
Tirailleurs
on the film's power of reconciliation.
It would show that
"things are moving"
and bring a
"message of appeasement"...
