They will be there, despite the controversy.
The head of LFI deputies Mathilde Panot confirmed this Tuesday that four LFI parliamentarians would go to Les Invalides on Wednesday for the nation's tribute to the French victims of the October 7 attacks in Israel.
The LFI delegation will be made up of Manuel Bompard, national coordinator of the movement, Caroline Fiat, vice-president of the Assembly, Éric Coquerel, president of the Finance committee, and Mathilde Panot herself.
Tribute to the victims of the Hamas attack of October 7: “We will be present there,” confirms @MathildePanot.
“The controversies must stop when the entire nation pays homage to the dead.”
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Several families of Franco-Israeli victims of attacks by the Palestinian Islamist movement asked Emmanuel Macron to “ban” the presence of the Insoumis at this tribute, accusing them of “bearing a very heavy responsibility for the explosion of Judeophobia” in the country. .
“I want to solemnly say here that the controversies must stop when the entire Nation pays homage to the dead,” Mathilde Panot responded this Tuesday at a press conference.
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The families of the victims justify their desire by the refusal of the LFI management to qualify Hamas as a “terrorist” group.
Like all parties, “we were invited to this tribute by the President of the Republic,” said Mathilde Panot.
Chaired by Emmanuel Macron, it will be returned, exactly four months after the assault of the Palestinian Islamist movement, to the monument for the victims of terrorism on the Esplanade des Invalides in Paris.