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Seine-Saint-Denis MP Fatiha Keloua Hachi files a complaint for racist insults and death threats

2024-04-03T17:29:25.816Z

Highlights: Seine-Saint-Denis MP Fatiha Keloua Hachi files a complaint for racist insults and death threats. The MP was targeted after having reacted to the adoption of the resolution recognizing the massacre of Algerians on October 17, 1961. “They tell me: Go back to your country! However, I was born in Paris. I'm as French as anyone else,” she says. She also made a request for sanctions against an RN deputy whose name she wishes to remain silent at this stage.


The elected socialist filed a complaint last Saturday after being the subject of an outpouring of racist hatred on social networks. Of me


“Go back

(sic)

to the country thank you”; “Are you a deputy from Algeria or from France? » ; “I can’t wait for a vote for remigration! »… It was after receiving multiple messages of this type on the social network , Gagny, Villemomble), decided to file a complaint last Saturday at the Rosny-sous-Bois police station.

The elected official also received a private message containing a death threat. According to a police source, a requisition was sent to X in order to identify the author of the message.

“They tell me:

Go back to your country!

However, I was born in Paris. »

The MP was targeted after having reacted to the adoption of the resolution recognizing the massacre of Algerians on October 17, 1961. She had intervened in the Assembly for a “general declaration” from her group. “And already, I felt a strong tension in the ranks of the National Rally when I took the podium,” she says. She said she heard “completely inappropriate” comments, including a cry “Long live the OAS!” », referring to the political-military terrorist movement close to the extreme right created in 1961 to prevent the independence of Algeria.

The elected official from Seine-Saint-Denis also made a request for sanctions against an RN deputy whose name she wishes to remain silent at this stage. “In the hubbub, she clearly told me that I was an ally of the terrorists,” she denounces.

Born to Algerian parents, Fatiha Keloua Hachi observes that all these reactions were not directed against “an MP with a French-sounding name”. “The proof is that MP Julie Delpech (

Editor’s note: elected Renaissance de la Sarthe

) also made a very beautiful speech on this text,” she observes. But she is a Macronist MP and her name is Julie. However, her terms were clear: she said she would vote for the resolution because it was necessary to open the files of history. I don't think I said anything else but they told me:

Go back to your country!

However, I was born in Paris. I'm as French as anyone else. »

Source: leparis

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