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The deputies voted for the 15-day exclusion of RN deputy Grégoire de Fournas, the most severe sanction provided for in the regulations.
On November 3, the session in the Assembly was abruptly interrupted at the end of the afternoon when the LFI-Nupes deputy Carlos Martens Bilongo questioned the government about the Ocean Viking boat armed by the NGO SOS Méditerranée, which identified 234 migrants on board.
Grégoire de Fournas cut him off, shouting “
Let him go back to Africa!
“, according to the entry in the minutes.
Almost all of the political class said they were outraged, including the President of the Republic who said he was "
offended
" by these remarks.
The racism trial may seem in bad faith in view of the explanations of the person concerned.
However, it is permissible to deplore “
lamentably provocative
” remarks from an elected representative of the nation, as the essayist Maxime Tandonnet points out.
More deeply, this case questions emptiness...
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