The countryside climate was not really relaxed this Saturday morning on the market square in Vitry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne), a popular place for candidates to distribute their leaflets. In a video broadcast this Saturday on Twitter by an elected PS at the Vitry town hall, appears Daly Ndiaye, host of La République En Marche and member of the list led by Sobhi Kamale for the municipal elections on March 15. Obviously launched into an argument with a man, the Walker gets carried away: "We meet in the evening somewhere, and I fuck you your race ... Do you understand? "
This Saturday evening, the extract was seen more than 5,000 times and the controversy went far beyond the local framework, the PS calling on LREM to react and to sanction its representative on the ground.
Bravo #EnMarche for your candidate @ DalyNdiaye1 who insults and threatens the inhabitants of #Vitry. Super your @KamaleSobhi list! Between you who are parachuted and your rogue friend, it promises. pic.twitter.com/JcYWo9e48J
- Shamime Attar (@ShamimeAttar) February 8, 2020The video does not show the previous exchanges, it is difficult to know why the tension has thus risen between the two camps. "We have an activist who is a little on edge at the moment," concedes however Serge Manenc, co-host of the local LREM committee. “He's an association, someone whole. He only responded to provocations from his interlocutors. He was deputy LREM in the legislative elections and there has been tension since in Vitry, "he explains.
"Unacceptable words"
In a press release issued by the head of the list, Kamale Sobhi, Daly Ndiaye said that he recognized "that he should not have used these terms and apologizes". Contacted by Le Parisien, Kamale Sobhi adds "condemning verbal violence" from his running mate. "These are inadmissible remarks and this behavior is not one of my values or those of Mr. Ndiaye," he explains. But we must remember the facts in their entirety. "
According to him, it was his teams that were the first to be taken to task. “The man we see with Daly Ndiaye arrived first with his bike to hinder our towing. He was talking to my teams, the tone is a bit high. He left after 20 minutes before returning with a woman and a young child in a stroller. They were holding a Stop Macron sign. "
Other sanctions to come?
According to the candidate, this is where "a small crowd formed, I stood a little further. Our leaflets were torn off, I have one of our activists who was even attacked, they tried to bring him down and tried to strangle him. He's a 70 year old gentleman, he's sick. "
The man is said to be currently at the police station to file a complaint. In another video, which Le Parisien was able to consult, we can see the man with whom Daly Ndiaye ran away tearing up a poster of Kamale Sobhi. Contacted, Daly Ndiaye did not respond to our requests.
Author of the video filming on social networks, Shamime Attar, elected PS in Vitry and candidate in the outgoing majority list, also tells us his version of the facts: "I was with two colleagues when we heard voices raise. We got closer and I started filming the scene, Daly Ndiaye was upset and made threatening remarks. I don't know the man he was talking to. To my knowledge, it is not someone from the PS or the PCF. "
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In a very shared tweet which propelled the video, the deputy Luc Carvounas (PS) for his part called on the general delegate of En Marche, Stanislas Guerini, to call to condemn "this type of violent, brutal and rogue attitude ". To the Parisian, the socialist specifies: “Mr. Ndiaye was the substitute for my opponent LREM in the legislative elections of 2017. He was somewhat virulent but not insulting. I await a public condemnation from the party leadership. This gentleman is responsible for the local. I expect a strong reaction. "
"Little thug attitude"
Luc Carvounas says he sees in this episode the disconnection of La République En Marche at the local level. “We have seen staff arriving in our cities who are not up to the task of political life. All the codes have exploded, he regrets. We see the deficiencies of the majority at the national level. Locally, it's even worse. The debates are hysterical. "And PS spokesperson Pierre Jouvet insisted:" This attitude of a little thug is unacceptable and unspeakable. It has no place in our democracy. "
Kamale Sobhi says he has not yet decided on any additional sanctions against his running mate. "I have not yet seen the video when I speak to you," he says. All this will be decided on Monday. Also contacted, Stanislas Guerini did not respond to our requests.