Campaign incident?
A video published this Thursday morning by a journalist from Current values shows a young man dragged on the ground for several tens of meters and expelled from a meeting of Emmanuel Macron, in Strasbourg, Tuesday evening.
Dressed in a white T-shirt and carrying a shoulder bag, the activist is pulled by the arms by two men.
“Democracy is beautiful, it is beautiful!
“, can we hear in the public, without knowing who pronounces these deaths.
"This scene made a lot less noise than the evacuation of the activist during Marine Le Pen's press conference", comments the reporter from the media committed to the far right.
On Wednesday, an environmental activist was tackled by a police officer and then dragged to the ground by a member of the RN security service.
Well, well, this scene made a lot less noise than the activist's evacuation during the @MLP_officiel press conference.
The media 2 weight 2 measures is mind-blowing.#MarineLePen #MacronStrasbourg pic.twitter.com/pKGgebn06p
— Baudouin Wisselmann (@Baudouin_wissel) April 14, 2022
Questioned by Le Parisien, Emmanuel Macron's campaign team justifies this brutal evacuation by the fact that "this person began to scream and insult very aggressively", with a "risk of violence for both Emmanuel Macron and for the public”.
Yellow vests and black bloc, "some of whom were prevented from accessing since they had weapons by destination such as screwdrivers", had been blocked at the entrance.
Members of the campaign order service
The two people dragging the individual in question on the ground are not police officers.
Abdelhalim Benzadi, Alliance union representative within the Protection Service (SDLP), which includes the police and gendarmes responsible for Emmanuel Macron's security, told Le Parisien that their approach "is not to muzzle the expression and to be aggressive".
They are actually members of the campaign order service.
The person "was not in a desire to appease since she continued to invective violently, so the decision was made to take her out", indicates the entourage of the candidate Macron, specifying that this evacuation is completely assumed by the campaign team.
We don't know at this time what happened next.
During this meeting, several pro-Mélenchon activists present in the audience had chanted cries such as “give back the IDF (wealth tax) first!
".
“The ISF is not in my pocket, it has created jobs!
“, retorted the candidate president Macron.
@EmmanuelMacron's meeting in #Strasbourg is marked by numerous incidents.
Several people are evacuated by FDO and security.
Yellow vests, anti-pass, simple lambda or, here, opponents protesting against the abolition of the ISF.
#Presidentielle2022 pic.twitter.com/9J7BLunSni
— Pierre Tremblay (@tremblay_p) April 12, 2022
A few hours later, the local branch of the Popular Union, the movement of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, claimed responsibility for this action.
"We have stepped in to make the voices of all those who have none heard," reads their press release.
On the side of Emmanuel Macron's campaign team, we insist on the fact that "everyone could see that the will was not to curb speech and that there were invectives".
