For a ceremony, the entire political class gathered at the Pantheon to pay tribute to the communist resistance fighter Missak Manouchian, who entered the Pantheon on Wednesday evening alongside his wife, Mélinée, and his brothers in arms .
If the political quarrels were put on hold for a few moments, that did not prevent Jean-Luc Mélenchon from shooting an arrow at Marine Le Pen.
Whose presence was desired neither by the left, nor by the descendants of resistance fighters, nor even by Emmanuel Macron.
In her capacity as president of the RN group in the Assembly, and daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen, Marine Le Pen was singled out and accused of being the political heir of the sponsors of Manouchian's death.
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If
“everyone is invited”
to a national tribute, the former rebellious presidential candidate confided to TF1
“that he had a secret jubilation because finally so many years after these unconditional capitulations, the extreme right is coming to make tribute to the communist resistance, even though they decried it so much.”
“It gives me pleasure to see the far right on its knees in front of the communist resistance.
I like it,”
rejoiced Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Who
“could not help but for (himself), when we asked ourselves questions, to have a form of satisfaction”
.
A response to his detractors
Considering that
"the communist resistance fighters had the last word, from all possible points of view"
, the former deputy for Bouches du Rhône nevertheless indicates that we must expect that
"the entire national representation"
will come when this The latter is invited to this type of event.
As a dig at those who criticized the Insoumis, who came to the ceremony in memory of Robert Badinter and the tribute to the Invalides for the terrorist attack of October 7 in Israel, when they were not welcome.