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During the tribute to Jean Jaurès: Alexis Corbière tackles the RN and Emmanuel Macron

2022-07-31T19:34:29.591Z


On the 180th anniversary of the death of the figure on the left, Several tributes were paid on Sunday July 31 to Jean Jaurès, on the occasion of the 108th anniversary of his assassination, the deputy LFI Alexis Corbière tackling the “ nationalists ” of the RN and Emmanuel Macron for remarks from 2020 on Charles Maurras. " We are the heirs of his fight: we say no to racism, no to anti-Semitism ", affirmed Alexis Corbière in front of a hundred people gathered at


Several tributes were paid on Sunday July 31 to Jean Jaurès, on the occasion of the 108th anniversary of his assassination, the deputy LFI Alexis Corbière tackling the “

nationalists

” of the RN and Emmanuel Macron for remarks from 2020 on Charles Maurras.

"

We are the heirs of his fight: we say no to racism, no to anti-Semitism

", affirmed Alexis Corbière in front of a hundred people gathered at the Café du croissant, rue Montmartre in Paris, where Jean Jaurès was assassinated by Raoul Villain on July 31, 1914, shortly before the outbreak of World War I.

"

Never forget comrades that on the occasion of his trial five years later, Raoul Villain will be acquitted and that the widow of Jean Jaurès will be condemned at his expense, having to bear the costs of the trial

", he said. he recalled, alongside the president of the LFI deputies Mathilde Panot and other rebellious elected officials who wore a tricolor scarf.

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The memory of Jean Jaurès was also hailed on Twitter by several politicians including the Minister of Transport Clément Beaune, from the left wing of the presidential majority.

As he used to say to youth, courage lies in going for the ideal and understanding the real;

to seek the truth and to tell it;

not to echo the foolish applause and fanatical boos

”.

"

Great ideas never die

," said PS chief Olivier Faure.

This morning the Paris Federation of the PS was with the communist militants

” in front of the Café du croissant for a tribute to Jean Jaurès, underlined the socialist senator from Paris David Assouline who tweeted a video of the ceremony and the filing of a wreath of flowers in front of the commemorative plaque.

In his speech, Alexis Corbière mentioned Charles Maurras, theorist of "

integral nationalism

" and who will be condemned after the Second World War for his support of the Vichy regime.

He called him an "

insulter of Jaurès who undoubtedly armed the hand of the one who assassinated him

", and said he was "

surprised

" by the comments made by "

the current President of the Republic

" in a interview given to L'Express in December 2020.

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"

For our part

", continued the Insoumis, "

we are in the camp of those who think that what Maurras represented should no longer exist and that if a President of the Republic must speak, it is to recall the role of Jaurès, but not to say that we must not forget Charles Maurras

".

Source: lefigaro

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