The question of welcoming Ukrainian refugees continues to divide the nationalist camp.
For a few days now, Marion Maréchal and Robert Ménard have been attacking each other through TV sets.
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On March 13, the one who recently joined Éric Zemmour reacted to the words of the mayor of Béziers.
The latter declared that he regretted not having welcomed Syrian migrants.
“
I said, wrote, published in Béziers a number of things at the time of the fighting in Syria and Iraq and the arrival of migrants in our country that I regret, that I am ashamed of having said and done, because it was not good
”, he had indeed affirmed on LCI.
“
He will go and say that to the dead and to those maimed for life, victims of the Bataclan
,” Marion Maréchal then retorted to the
RTL-Le Figaro-LCI Grand Jury.
It is because there has been real laxity in welcoming these refugees or pseudo-refugees from Syria that we have come to this situation and the tragedy that has struck France, so I do not share all this analysis.
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“Let it be a bit more modest”
"
Someone who presents himself as a Catholic should show benevolence and charity
," castigated Robert Ménard on LCI yesterday.
“
She spoke incredibly harsh words to the refugees.
And she does not lack sass, anyway!
(...) She does not know what she is talking about, she should take five minutes to leave the benches of her school.
She takes herself for a geopolitician, that she is a bit more modest.
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Asked about this this morning, Marion Maréchal brushed aside these "
personal attacks
".
“
He was despicable (…) He falls into invective, insult, contempt, condescension.
It's a shame, I would have liked him to answer on the merits.
On LCI, Marine Le Pen's niece indeed considered the parallel between Ukrainian refugees and Syrian refugees "
improper
".
Before launching a final spade: “
He changes his mind about everything all the time.
He has a lot of sympathy for Emmanuel Macron lately.
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