The sentence is short.
The voice, barely audible.
It is however the whole hemicycle that it sets ablaze.
On Thursday, November 3, while LFI deputy Carlos Martens Bilongo was alarmed at the fate of migrants on board the Ocean Viking, his colleague RN Grégoire de Fournas addressed him from afar: “
Let him return to Africa!
".
"
Not at all...
", tries the speaker at first.
Before the left rises as a single man to rail against the lepenist.
All seem convinced of having heard an openly racist cry, directly addressed to their black colleague of Ivorian origin.
"
Go back to Africa!"
“, they think they have understood, before the official transcription of the services of the
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Too late, that said, to extinguish the already very lively controversy.
"
It's racism!
“, “
Out!
Outside !
“, we protest on the benches of the Nupes.
“
He was talking about the boat!
“, try to retort the nationalists…
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