Crif "does not want" the National Rally (RN) to take part in Sunday's march against anti-Semitism in Paris, its president Yonathan Arfi told LCI radio on Thursday.
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We do not want people who are heirs of a party founded by former collaborators to be present," said the president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France. As of Tuesday evening, Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella had responded positively to the call of the presidents of the National Assembly and the Senate, attracting the wrath of a large part of the political class. "By announcing that it would participate in this demonstration, the National Rally knew that it would create controversy, that it would divert the demonstration from its main purpose, which is the fight against anti-Semitism," he charged, criticizing "a form of instrumentalization of this march that is indecent." "Decency would have dictated that they step aside at a time like this because they knew their presence would create controversy," Arfi said.
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"The RN and LFI are actors who are outside the republican field"
While La France insoumise declared not to go to the march this Sunday, the president of Crif considered that "the RN and LFI are actors who are outside the republican field". And to denounce: "La France insoumise cultivates friendships with assumed anti-Semites, they demonstrate with Islamists, cultivate links with indigenist movements, they are in an almost assumed support for Hamas, we have here the ball of arsonists".
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It would be good for the President of the Republic to be there," he said, while the presence of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne is confirmed alongside the President of the Senate Gérard Larcher and the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet.