After the requests for the dissolution of the UNEF already expressed by several elected officials on the right, Senator Bruno Retailleau and MP Julien Aubert have taken new initiatives aimed at condemning the racialist abuses of the student union.
Wednesday on Europe 1, Mélanie Luce, president of the organization, recognized the existence of single-sex meetings in which whites were not admitted.
A choice assumed to allow victims of racism to be able to express themselves freely.
This admission immediately raised a wave of political condemnation, including within the government.
Guest of BFMTV / RMC, the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer judged that the charges against the student union were "extremely serious".
In the Senate, the president of the LR group split from a letter addressed to the Minister of Justice on Friday in which he denounced an "
offensive by the supporters of the return of the race in the public debate
", which promotes "
a conception of the race. 'organization of society in opposition to French values
'.
The parliamentarian also reminds Eric Dupond-Moretti that the criminal law "
is armed to punish racism
" and he insists that the response of the State cannot, according to him, be "
indifference
".
He also asks the Keeper of the Seals to initiate proceedings for "
public incitement to discrimination
", according to article 24 of the law of July 29, 1881 on freedom of the press.
"
You cannot allow social relations in our country to be racialized without taking action
", finally emphasizes Bruno Retailleau by questioning the Minister: "
What would you have done, what would you have said, if a union organized meetings reserved for men with white skin?
".
Aubert denounces "discrimination"
For his part, Julien Aubert alerted the Paris prosecutor to a “
potential tort
” committed by the UNEF.
According to the deputy for Vaucluse, the facts fall under article 225-1 of the Penal Code, according to which any distinction between people according to their race or origin constitutes “
discrimination
”.
This initiative, prepared by lawyers Charles Consigny and
Francis Szpiner, is supported by fifty-eight elected officials and former elected officials, including five members of the “Oser la France” movement led by Julien Aubert.
Among the co-signatories are Éric Ciotti, François-Xavier Bellamy, Gérard Longuet, Valérie Boyer, Bernard Carayon, Sébastien Meurant, Guy Teissier ...
The deputy LR specifies in a press release that in the event of a conviction against the UNEF, he would ask Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior, to "
draw all the consequences and dissolve the student union
" .
The UNEF presents itself as the "
main
" student organization in France, claims "
30,000
" members and boasts of defending "
the material and moral interests
" of students by intervening in various fields, such as "
social assistance
" and "
the fight against discrimination
”.
President Mélanie Luce says she is
"harassed and threatened"
but
"still standing"
since her controversial interview on Europe 1.