After the time of condemnations, comes that of reflections.
The day after the incident of the slap received by Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, during a trip to the Drôme, Jean Castex, Gérard Larcher, Christophe Castaner, Gabriel Attal and Bruno Le Maire returned to the causes of the violence on Wednesday suffered by the President of the Republic and the lessons to be learned.
"We continue, and we will continue more than ever, to meet the French, said the Premier this Wednesday morning, traveling to Rungis (Val-de-Marne).
I am a committed actor, so of course the government and its leader are involved in the campaign, it is quite normal, they do not have to shirk, I have never shied away in the exercise of my attributions , it is not today that it will start.
We will not in any way turn away from our direct link with the French population.
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Denouncing "completely condemnable isolated behaviors", he said his "conviction that it is not necessarily those we hear the most, which manifest themselves in the most spectacular or vehement way, which represent the good. meaning of the vast majority of our fellow citizens, that we do not hear but that we must especially not forget ”, because“ it is they who hold the country and it is for them that we work ”.
"Violence in a democratic society, hatred, exclusion, will never be a solution, can never be accepted," he insisted.
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"We must learn a lesson for all of us, from the need to weigh every word, estimated for his part the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire on BFMTV, for whom" this gesture is serious for the French nation as a whole ".
"Let us pull together, because the most serious violence always begins without exception with words," he added to Jean-Jacques Bourdin's microphone.
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Guest of the “4 Vérités” of France 2 this Wednesday morning, Gérard Larcher deplored “an intolerable act”.
“Through the Head of State, it is an attack on the Republic and its values.
Beyond that, it should lead us to reflect on the violence that we feel is rising in society, ”said the President of the Senate.
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"It is the democratic debate which makes it possible to bring the best response to violence", reacted on France Inter Christophe Castaner. The president of the LREM group in the National Assembly affirms it: “The verbal logorrhea of social networks could have fueled it. "But if the former Minister of the Interior indicates that" this slap must awaken our relationship to violence ", he also calls not to oversize this incident," because most of the Presidents of the Republic who come into contact with the French , expose themselves to it and that the best response to it is not to change ”. "In the seconds which follow the slap, Emmanuel Macron returns to contact with the French" he recalls.
"There is a form of radicalism in the public debate which is not healthy, but we must not give the feeling that this act is representative of a feeling of the French population", indicates Gabriel Attal. "It is not everyone this gentleman who wanted to strike a blow", adds the spokesperson for the government who also welcomes "the absolute republican union around the figure of the President of the Republic".