In the manner of "Je suis Charlie", the comedian Philippe Torreton has just published on social networks an open letter of about twenty lines in which he denounces the terrorist attack by Hamas and the lack of reaction of French public opinion. "On October 7, terrorists atrociously massacred hundreds and hundreds of men, women and children for the sole reason that they were Jews. More than <> French nationals were among the victims, while others were held hostage by Hamas. I search, I search and I see nothing, no placards, no unifying slogans, no huge processions, no slogans, no concerts, nothing or very little."
Message from Philippe Torreton on Linkedin. DR
The member of the Comédie-Française, who has made a habit of engaging politically, is also indignant in his letter about the progression of anti-Semitism in France. "I see anti-Semitic graffiti painted in cowardice on the walls of our cities, I see linguistic convolutions that fail to denounce the horror, I see the cynicism and political clientelism of the far left stuttering, I see European shame regaining its health more than 80 years after its last triumph.
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The comparison with the attacks of 2015 and particularly the one perpetrated against the editorial staff of the satirical newspaper founded in 1970 by François Cavanna seems obvious to him: "A few years ago we wore Je suis Charlie, our eyes full of tears and our hearts black. There were millions of us, and this slogan was plastered all over the walls of our cities in huge advertising posters."
Faced with what he considers to be a relative apathy of France and international bodies, Philippe Torreton now chooses his cause. "I see Alzheimer's tearing up the pages of our history books and Parkinson's preventing us from banging our fists on desks in Brussels and New York... So, I say it in the name of the fighting and resistant France that saw Zola born, in the name of those twenty and a hundred, in the name of those thousands that Ferrat sang, who wanted, as I want today, for his children to know who you were: I am Jewish.
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