Emotion, and tension.
Four days after the conflict in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), where a history and geography professor was beheaded in the middle of the street by an Islamist, the questioning session to the government on Tuesday was almost exclusively devoted to the assassination of Samuel Paty.
After taking part in the tribute to the deputies, on the steps of the Palais Bourbon, the president of the LR group in the National Assembly, Damien Abad, challenged Jean Castex in the hemicycle.
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“
Do not forget
is not just letting the tears of the Republic flow in the form of tributes and gatherings
.
Not to forget is above all, Prime Minister, not to forget to act.
Enough renunciation, enough resignation and culpable surrender.
The guilty Republic is the Republic which abdicates and which, in the end, lets the Islamists pass
, ”he asserted.
In the Hemicycle, Abad spelled out the LR proposals
Supported by all LR elected officials, who resumed his words in chorus, Damien Abad criticized the presidential majority for having "
systematically refused
", for three years, to take up the proposals formulated by The Republicans to fight against the radical Islamism.
The boss of LR deputies then went on at length about the measures that the right had put into the debate, without success.
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“
Expel foreigners who have been registered for radicalization and terrorism from our national territory?
Refuse !
Close the 100 Salafist mosques and radicalized prayer rooms?
Refuse !
Expel radicalized imams?
Refuse !
Guarantee safe detention for Islamist terrorists on release from prison?
Refuse !
Reduce immigration by restricting family reunification, asylum rights and land rights?
Refuse !
Prohibit communalist lists in elections?
Refuse !
Make radiological bone examinations compulsory to benefit from the status of 'unaccompanied minor'?
Refuse !
End the automatic allocation of a residence card valid for 10 years to foreigners?
Refuse !
Prohibit the return of jihadists to the national territory?
Refuse !
Ban radicalized people from all public employment?
Refuse !
“, He listed.
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“
Mr. Prime Minister, if we want them to stop passing, now is the time to put words into action.
And if for that we have to change the Constitution, then let's change it!
"Pleaded Damien Abad addressing the head of government ... Who, a few months ago, was a member of the Republicans.
"
Mr. Prime Minister, the French want to know: are you going to answer 'yes' or 'no' to the call of the deputies of the Republicans so that all the proposals that we have are voted on before the end of the year? have been formulating for 3 years and that you have never stopped refusing?
“, He added warmly applauded by his group.
"You are in the incantation, we are in the action!"
This intervention aroused a very strong reaction from Prime Minister Jean Castex.
“
Decidedly, any opportunity is seized, in this period of crisis, to fuel the controversy and align the untruths.
It is not worthy!
It is not dignified in the present circumstances
”, rebelled Jean Castex, despite the protests of the elected LR, who made loudly slam their desks.
“
You express the wish for a constitutional revision.
So here is a provision which will be fast, efficient, and which will provide operational solutions to the subject before us,
”he quipped
.
Before targeting Xavier Bertrand - without naming him -, and mock the proposal he made during the "Grand Jury" RTL-
Le Figaro
-LCI on Sunday.
“
I even see that, in your family, it would be a question of revising the Constitution to include the principle of secularism ... As if it was not already there!
”He said.
“
You are in the incantation, we are in the action!
"
"We argue all the time!"
A little later, after having welcomed the intervention of the president of the PCF group André Chassaigne, the Prime Minister was once again annoyed with “
electoralism unsuited to the circumstances
” to which part of the opposition gave in according to him.
A message addressed to his controversial former family, whom he accuses of falling into political politics.
“
We argue all the time!
In the health crisis, in the economic crisis, in the security crisis ...
", hammered Jean Castex, turning to the benches of the right.
"
What are we looking for?
“, He pretended to question, applauded by the benches of the presidential majority.