In the middle of the European campaign, the Young Communists are taking aim at the majority but also at the left. Posted on Saturday in Lille, posters from the Lille youth section of the PCF directly target the North Renaissance MP Violette Spillebout and the head of the Place publique and PS list, Raphaël Glucksmann. In question, their resolutely pro-Ukraine positions.
“Who is going to die
in Ukraine
? Is he going to go to war?
, questions the visual which features the face of the social-democrat MEP. Described as a
“damn bastard”
, Raphaël Glucksmann is accused of wanting to
“send the children of workers to war”
. Before being singled out for his former role as advisor to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili:
“Don't ask him what he was doing in Georgia between 2009 and 2012
,” warns the poster, heavy with insinuations.
“Targeting” and “incitement to hatred”
Same accusatory questions for the candidate for mayor of Lille, targeted for having allegedly
“voted for unconditional support for Ukraine”
. A reference to the vote organized on March 12 in the National Assembly on the security agreement signed between Paris and kyiv, which the PCF opposed. Violette Spillebout denounced this Sunday on X
“the targeting and incitement to hatred of the posters of the Young Communists of the North”. “Shocked”
, the majority deputy announced that she had
“immediately informed
Fabien Roussel
”,
the national secretary of the PCF
, “whose republican respect [she] knows”
.
“The latter told me that he did not condone such practices and would put an end to them
,” she said before condemning
“any attack on elected officials”
. And to reiterate his commitment to Kiev:
“I confirm all my support for the commitments made by the President of the Republic for the Defense of Ukraine and the Ukrainians.”
Violette Spillebout told AFP that she did not intend to file a complaint for the moment.
“This is not a hate campaign”
These posters target
"the elected officials who have engaged France in a warlike escalation"
, explained to AFP Noam Peter, federal secretary of the young communists of the North, designating in particular Raphaël Glucksmann (Place publique), Éric Ciotti (LR) or again Victor Catteau (RN). We wanted to
“highlight that those who decide on war are not those who wage it. “It’s not a hate campaign, it’s a shock campaign
,” he said. The French Communist Party condemned this poster campaign, calling it
“inadmissible and insulting”
, reacted to AFP Igor Zamichiei, coordinator of the national executive committee of the PCF.
“This is not our way of doing politics
,” he insisted.
The Lille Socialist Party also denounced this campaign in a press release.
“We are convinced that if we still want dignified democratic debates with citizens, and that they are interested in public affairs, this type of campaign has no place in political life
,” he said. estimated.