The tenant of Place Beauvau, Gérald Darmanin, criticized Thursday the
"dissonant voices"
which
"attack the Republic"
, targeting without naming Eric Zemmour, during a ceremony marking the rehabilitation of the Jewish cemetery of Sarre-Union (Bas -Rhin), desecrated in 2015.
“We must listen with great attention to the speeches and the wills to divide us: dissonant voices - as sympathetic as they can be to give rise to artificial debates - are voices that attack the Republic "
, He declared at the podium.
"A Republic which attacks secularism by trying to hide clothes or by changing first names, I deeply believe that it is preparing for us very difficult tomorrow"
, he added, in an allusion to the statements of the polemicist of extreme right Eric Zemmour who proposes to force parents to choose “French first names”.
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At the Jewish cemetery of Sarre-Union, where 269 graves and the monument paying homage to the victims of the deportation had been desecrated by adolescents on February 15, 2015, Gérald Darmanin pointed to the “debates which arouse negative intentions”.
He recalled that there had been
"in Alsace about twenty anti-Semitic acts since the beginning of the year"
.
“Unfortunately, for people to move on to these attacks, there must be speeches that legitimize some of these acts. So when you're lucky enough to be heard by millions of French people, which is a big responsibility, you have to be careful what you say, ”
he continued.
During the ceremony, the mayor of Sarre-Union, Marc Séné, expressed
"the enormous relief"
that constituted the rehabilitation of the Jewish cemetery,
"for the population of the territory, and especially for all the families who were touched by the desecration of the graves of their loved ones ”.