Didier Lallement, Leon Trotsky's secret admirer?
The prefect of police risks attracting a new controversy with his 2021 greeting card. He did not hesitate, in fact, to include a quote from Volume I of the
Military Writings
of Leon Trotsky, figure of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and founder of the Red Army, on the card sent to his relations to wish them a happy new year.
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More than the choice of the communist author, it is also the martial character of the chosen extract which made people react:
"I am deeply convinced, and the crows will crawl in vain, that we will create by our common efforts the order. necessary.
Just know and remember that without it bankruptcy and shipwreck are inevitable ”.
Didier Lallement Le Figaro's menu
Didier Lallement Le Figaro's greeting card
Spotted by the journalist David Perrotin, who ensures that several elected officials of the city of Paris received this letter, then by the journalists of the
Parisian
, the card did not fail to attract many reactions on Twitter.
Some denouncing the reference to Trotsky, a
"sinister individual"
and
"fervent supporter of the Red Terror"
for the European deputy of the National Rally, Jean-Lin Lacapelle, others wondering about a possible joke like the journalist Elise Blaise.
Socialist senator Rémi Féraud denounces him,
"a drift"
:
"Where have the republican principles which should found the authority of the State gone?"
Difficult to know what the prefect of police wanted to insinuate with his few words.
According to one of the Prefect's interlocutors, quoted by
Le Parisien
, it would be a question of arguing that
"the order is neither on the right nor on the left".
Anyway, Didier Lallement, appointed by Emmanuel Macron in March 2019, is not at his first controversy.
Already in November 2019, he had launched a "yellow vest" came to demonstrate:
"We are not in the same camp, Madam".
During recent demonstrations in France, the name of Didier Lallement was often inscribed on the signs, associated with police violence.
Still in mid-December, the prefect was heckled during the Council of Paris, many elected officials waving signs "stop police violence", "Lallement, Darmanin, resignation".