Marine Le Pen defended freedom of expression on Wednesday, January 27, about the radical far-right group Generation Identity, whose action in the Alps she hailed in 2018 and whose dissolution the Minister of the Interior will study.
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Gérald Darmanin “
said he was '' scandalized ''.
So what scandalizes Mr. Darmanin must be dissolved.
This is not the rule of law,
”said the president of the National Rally on France Info.
"
The ECHR
(European Court of Human Rights)
says that freedom of expression, I read it," applies not only to information or ideas received with favor, or considered harmless or indifferent, but also for those which offend, shock or worry the State or any part of the population ''
, she argued.
"
So be careful that the Minister of the Interior
(Gérald Darmanin)
does not distort the law, the great public freedoms, because it does not appreciate such and such + not, whose actions shock me, upset me, and for that I do not demand their dissolution
”, she said added.
Darmanin's predecessor and leader of LREM deputies, Christophe Castaner, said on France Inter that if he had "been
able to dissolve Generation Identity for what they represent and do
(he)
would have done
" but that "
each time we
(him)
replied that they had committed very “borderline” political acts, at the limit, but never for legal fault to justify the dissolution
”.
However, he invoked “
new facts
” without specifying them and said he hoped that “
these people, who hide behind associative activism and who in reality are xenophobic, racist, and cause hatred in our society, can effectively lose this screen behind which they protect themselves like cowards
”.
The LR vice-president of the National Assembly Annie Genevard saw in it a "
fairly political tempo
" from Darmanin, reporting that during the examination of the bill against "
separatism
", La France insoumise had "
not stopped to ask him to dissolve Génération Identitaire
”.
"
On the part of Gerald Darmanin, there is the will to show that it is not only Islamist associations that he can dissolve
" and that he "
can also dissolve far-right associations
", a- she explained on
Sud Radio
.