February 1981 in Montigny-lès-Cormeilles, a small municipality in Val-d'Oise. In front of thousands of people, in the middle of the presidential campaign, the candidate and boss of the PCF Georges Marchais, fully assumes: "
We pose the problems of immigration
." To applause, he mocks those who accuse the Communists of "
flattering the lowest instincts
". And point, ironic, a smirk, those who "
all cry in chorus to Pétainism
". Socialists, in particular, are in his sights.
Georges Marchais did not visit this town at random but to support the mayor, a certain Robert Hue, who will be his successor at the head of the party.
Hue was then under fire from part of the left for having denounced a Moroccan father accused of drug trafficking.
The boss of the PCF knew the file of the immigrant workers to have carried it before being elected national secretary of the PCF.
A few weeks earlier had arisen the affair more
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