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Ignorance, masochism, complicity? All three?" With this scathing post published on Friday evening on X, the mayor of Cannes LR David Lisnard slammed the Secretary of State for Youth Prisca Thévenot. The latter, on a trip on Friday to the Pissevin priority district of Nîmes, had congratulated on the social network the association of the "Pink Vests", women from neighborhoods "committed to young people to carry the values of the Republic and promote citizenship".
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I wanted to give the microphone to a silent majority," the secretary of state said, accompanying her post on X with photos of women wearing the Islamic veil. "There is an alternative narrative for the stigmatized suburbs," continued Prisca Thévenot, herself a native of Stains in Seine-Saint-Denis, who made the two-day trip to the area plagued by violence and drug trafficking to speak "positively" about the neighborhoods.
After the LR mayor of Cannes was attacked, Prisca Thévenot reacted in turn on X, returning each of her attacks to him. "Ignorance is not seeing the work that these women do in the service of the Republic," she began, referring to the members of the Pink Vests, mothers of neighborhoods who have made it their mission to mediate in the public space. "Masochism is to see France only through a rancid eye. Complicity is to take up the arguments of the far right for electoral purposes, "concluded the Secretary of State, while the president of the Association of Mayors of France does not hide his ambitions for the presidential election of 2027.
The Pissevin district, which is one of the main points of sale for narcotics in Nîmes, is regularly the scene of deadly settling of scores. Also on Friday night, a young man in his twenties was stabbed in the neighborhood. Last August, two shootings in the space of a week killed a 10-year-old child, Fayed, and an 18-year-old.