Le Figaro Bordeaux
The presence of the Insoumis deputies did not please everyone in Bordeaux.
This Wednesday, December 7, the deputies Carlos Martens Bilongo and Louis Boyard were traveling to Bordeaux Montaigne University, on the Pessac campus (Gironde), as part of a conference entitled "
The LFI-NUPES is coming to your university
" , in order to discuss the conditions of student life.
But in the evening, about twenty activists, dressed in black and masked, tried to enter the amphitheater where the debate was taking place.
According to a joint press release from the two deputies, "
the individuals were notably armed with telescopic batons
".
A version confirmed by the university and supported by several videos posted online.
In a press release published in the evening, the president of Bordeaux Montaigne University, Lionel Larré, "
condemns in the strongest terms this violence and attempts to intimidate elected officials of the Republic
", carried out by “
About twenty hooded individuals, armed with iron bars and uttering racist slogans
”.
The presidency recalls that "
the conference and the show were nevertheless able to take place and end at the scheduled time
", in particular thanks to the intervention of the police.
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It was first of all the presence of the security service which made it possible to prevent the intrusion of these "
extreme right activists
" into the amphitheater, recall the two LFI deputies.
Called by the university, "
the police intervened in a second time so that the conference could end and the public be evacuated
".
For the Insoumis parliamentarians, these acts are akin
to “a punitive expedition
”, falling “
in a context of trivialization of the far right
”.
A panel held up by one of the activists notably bore the phrase "
Let them return to Africa"
, pronounced in the National Assembly during a speech by LFI deputy Carlos Martens Bilongo.