The emotion and the action.
The first does not fall, the second grows.
Both now mingle at the top of the state, five days after the beheading of Professor Samuel Paty by a radicalized Islamist, in Conflans-Saint-Honorine.
The President of the Republic will pay him a national tribute, Wednesday evening, in the courtyard of the emblematic Sorbonne University.
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Assassination of Samuel Paty: a national tribute will take place in the courtyard of the Sorbonne on Wednesday evening
Before the ceremony, the President of the Republic will present the Legion of Honor posthumously to Samuel Paty.
Then the national tribute will be paid in the presence of the Prime Minister and members of the government.
The former presidents of the Republic were invited, as were the presidents of the National Assembly and the Senate.
The teachers' unions will also attend the ceremony as well as a hundred young students from Île-de-France.
Samuel Paty's family and colleagues will also be in attendance.
The Head of State will deliver a speech of about fifteen minutes
"intimate and centered on the person"
.
For the terrorist component, Emmanuel Macron explained Tuesday evening on his
“strategy to fight radical Islamism”
after a trip to the prefecture of Bobigny, in Seine-Saint-Denis.
“Following the attack, we will further strengthen what was launched.
It is not a question of making new declarations, we know what to do ”
, assured the Head of State.
On Wednesday in the Council of Ministers, the Cheikh Yassine collective created by the preacher Sefrioui will be dissolved because
"directly linked to the attack"
, he confirmed.
“
The actions will continue.
The words, we got them;
evil, we have named it;
the strategy,
I explained it to Mureaux
,
hammered Emmanuel Macron.
The acts will be there.
The Republic needs it. ”
Because beyond the emotion, national unity is not there.
This enemy is radical Islam, it is a permanent threat that can come from outside, which can recruit its killers from among our own compatriots.
Jean Castex
If the deputies of the National Assembly also praised the memory of Samuel Paty on Tuesday, the questioning session to the government turned out to be rather agitated.
Sign of the seriousness of the moment, the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, himself answered the rolling fire of questions from the opposition deputies.
From his first intervention, the head of government sought to be offensive, despite the slamming of the desk.
"Yes, the enemy is there, he is clearly identified,
" said the defector from the right.
And I'm not afraid to call it what it is.
Because any ambiguity with regard to it is already a beginning of renunciation.
This enemy is radical Islam, it is a permanent threat which can come from outside, which can recruit its killers from among our own compatriots. "
Under the vociferations of elected officials from the opposition benches - especially from the right -, Jean Castex unrolled the measures taken since 2017 to fight terrorism, to try to provide proof that, despite this new attack, the leaders are at Appointment.
"The hour is serious, a little respect!"
, he got annoyed, lambasting, a few minutes later,
"inappropriate electoralism"
and the
"polemics"
of the oppositions.
We are also paying the price of slacking off, but now is the time for action
Jean Castex at the National Assembly
The tenant of Matignon recalled the determination of the executive to act on different fronts: the judicial and administrative response with the closure of associations identified as
"accomplices"
of radical Islam, and also legal and political by further regulating content. hateful online, thanks to the reinforcement of monitoring platforms and the creation of an
“offense of endangering the publication of personal data”
.
"You see how relevant the announcement of the President of the Republic of October 2 that Parliament is seized of a bill intended to strengthen our legal arsenal against separatism!",
Recalled Jean Castex, specifying that this text would contain of
"concrete provisions on the respect of secularism, will address the insidious forms of radical Islam will strengthen the school of the Republic referred today."
"We are also paying the price of a relaxation, but today, the time is for action",
he insisted.
Elected officials of all stripes expressed their indignation, some, especially within the Republicans, wanted to point out the weakness of the executive.
The group chairman, Damien Abad, has put together a list of proposals supposed to fight radical Islam and rejected by the majority.
"Refuse!"
, resumed in chorus the right-wing deputies.
The elected representative recalled the will of his camp to proceed with a constitutional revision to reaffirm the laws of the Republic and the principle of secularism.
"This is a fast, efficient arrangement that will provide operational answers!"
“, Quipped Jean Castex in return.
"You are in the incantation, we are in the action!"
The Rubicon was crossed on Friday, so we are trying to create an electroshock
A relative of Emmanuel Macron
"All the conditions are met for Marine Le Pen to reap the fruits of this tragedy,"
worries Patrick Mignola, leader of the MoDem deputies.
Including thanks to the most stupid and surly possible right which no longer acts as a bulwark. "
The Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, however called on the national representation to show itself
“united”
to
“identify the intellectual authors of this assassination”
.
Since Friday, the government has been working to show that action on counterterrorism is stepping up a notch.
“We must also recall what has been done
, believes Patrick Mignola.
The difficulty is that the fight against terrorism does not take place through press releases.
If a minister announces at the “20 Hours” that he has foiled an attack, the French will believe that we are playing Peter and the Wolf. ”
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In the eyes of the centrist, the government's response is
“proportionate”
.
“We were already there, we must speed up the movement of application.
Everyone was grappling with their self-righteous fads, human rights, this will no longer be the case.
Those who had some modesty or calculations are silent, ”
he welcomes.
And for good reason,
"the Rubicon was crossed on Friday, so we are trying to create an electroshock",
decrypts a relative of the President of the Republic.
This support from the Head of State now hopes that the pressure of public opinion and the political class will be such that the administrative justice will not oppose a veto to measures of dissolutions of associations or closures of places of worship.
