It's a real mea culpa.
Wednesday evening on LCI, the mayor of Béziers, Robert Ménard, recognized "
a fault
".
That of having shown a “
double standard
” by saying that it was in favor of welcoming Ukrainian refugees, six years after having closed its door to Syrian migrants who are victims of the war in their country.
“
I say it for us, this right-wing current, we were wrong.
I was wrong
, ”said the support of Marine Le Pen.
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The return of the war to Europe seems to have opened his eyes.
Since the first Russian attacks in Ukraine, the city councilor has multiplied initiatives to help the population, whether by delivering basic necessities to the border or welcoming refugees to the city.
Yet it was he who had signed, in 2015, posters warning against the arrival of Syrian migrants.
“
I said, wrote, published in Béziers a certain number of things that I regret, that I am ashamed of having said and done.
Because morally, it was not good
“, he then recognized.
“I don’t teach others a lesson”
“
There are not two kinds of victims
, continued the chosen one.
There are not European Christians who should be defended, and then people who are not European, who are in the Middle East or who are Muslims and whom we would have been right not to accept in our country.
A speech that runs counter to that of her candidate, since Marine Le Pen has repeatedly assumed to make a difference between refugees.
"
The bombed Syrians were the Islamists
," she said in particular at the start of the conflict, before referring to the Ukrainians as "
regional solidarity
".
"
The bombs, they are no different when they fall on my friends in Kiev and when they fall on my friends in Aleppo
", however moved Robert Ménard, before qualifying this attitude not as an "
error
" but well of "
fault
".
“
I apply it to myself.
I do not lecture others
,” he added.
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The mayor of Béziers was also delighted with the reversal of Eric Zemmour, first opposed to the arrival of refugees then ready to welcome those who have "
ties
" in France.
"
For someone who had never changed his mind, faced with the monstrosity of his remarks, he clearly sees that he cannot continue
", he thus estimated, evoking a speech "
hard, brittle, without a lot of traces of humanity
”.
“
When we are interested in people, we are not only interested in France, we are interested in the French
”, further warned the elected official who considers that Marine Le Pen “
has changed on this
”.
“
I think she listens a little more.
She's not in that ivory tower.
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