Part of the left castigated this Saturday the publication in
Valeurs Actuelles
of a forum of several soldiers, including 20 generals, evoking "
the disintegration
" of France, followed by a letter from Marine Le Pen inviting them to join her for the presidential election.
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The newspaper published a column on Wednesday launched by Jean-Pierre Fabre-Bernadac, career officer and manager of the Place Armes site, calling on Macron to defend patriotism, signed by "
twenty generals, a hundred high-ranking officers and more" a thousand other soldiers,
”according to the weekly.
These soldiers denounce the "
disintegration
" which strikes the homeland and "
which, through a certain anti-racism, is displayed with a single aim: to create on our soil a malaise, even hatred between the communities (...) which, with Islamism and the suburban hordes, leads to the detachment of multiple plots of the nation to transform them into territories subject to dogmas contrary to our constitution (...) Discrimination, because (...) power uses the police as auxiliary agents and scapegoats in the face of French people in yellow vests expressing their despair
”, according to this text.
"
I invite you to join our action
"
"
We are ready to support policies which will take into consideration the safeguard of the nation
", they add. Two days later
Valeurs Actuelles
published a response from Marine Le Pen: "
I invite you to join our action to take part in the battle which is beginning (...) which is above all the battle for France
". “
As a citizen and as a politician, I subscribe to your analyzes and share your grief,
” she wrote.
What to provoke the ire of several figures of the left who denounced the lack of reaction of the government.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon castigated the "
astonishing declaration of soldiers arrogating to themselves the right to call their active colleague to an intervention against the Islamogauchists
".
“
60 years after the start of the ALGIERS putsch, 20 generals are explicitly threatening the Republic with a military coup.
@MLP_officiel calls on them to join it.
No reaction from @florence_parly @JeanCASTEX nor @EmmanuelMacron
”, was also indignant Benoît Hamon.
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"
The soldiers call for a witch hunt, for an eradication, to defend 'civilizational values' against the Republic, it ends with a threat of civil war, Le Pen salutes these factious apprentices and?
Nothing.
We're waking up?
", Added LFI deputy Eric Coquerel.
Conclusion, for Aurélien Taché: "
French democracy is indeed threatened
".
The previous week,
Valeurs Actuelles
had published a column by Philippe de Villiers titled "
I call for insurrection
".
His brother, Pierre de Villiers, former chief of staff of the armed forces is also cited by some as a possible presidential candidate in 2022.