On the evening of the new Islamist attack in Paris, Friday, a President of the Republic spoke.
It was not Emmanuel Macron but his predecessor, François Hollande.
This Elysian silence has been severely criticized on the right, with several of its leaders making this silence proof of an underestimation of the nature of the threat or the inability to respond to it.
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The presidency justifies this absence of public expression but refutes the trial in denial or in delay.
By putting forward three arguments.
The first invites us to distinguish between expression and action.
If he did not speak, Macron was maneuvering in the crisis cell and telephoned, each of the last three days, to the families of the victims as well as to the members of the editorial staff of
Charlie Hebdo
.
The second underlines that the executive is not limited to the Head of State, and that Jean Castex and Gérald Darmanin have strongly occupied the media space around this attack.
Finally, the third recalls that the president of the
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