politicians are tearing themselves apart — RT in French

The terrible knife attack that took place on June 8 in the morning in Annecy provoked strong reactions from French political figures. The drama quickly gave way to invective.

The silence established in the hemicycle in tribute to the victims lasted only one minute. As a Syrian in his thirties attacked young children and adults with a knife in the city of Annecy, in Haute-Savoie, political figures quickly came to the invective, some accusing their opponents of recovery when others denounced the result of migration policies.

Aurore Bergé launches hostilities

Questioned at the end of the morning by The Parliamentary Channel (LCP), the president of the Renaissance group in the National Assembly Aurore Bergé declared: “To be currently in the hemicycle with a kind of battle of ragpicker on the admissibility or not of amendments seems to us totally out of step with the dread that […] overwhelms our country.” A tackle aimed at the opposition while the debate on pension reform continues. Tackle that quickly sparked anger on the left. The LFI deputy for Essonne Antoine Léaument thus denounced the political recovery of a tragedy.

Same story on the side of the president of the LFI group Mathilde Panot who denounced on social networks a “repugnant instrumentalization”, when the RN deputy from Pas-de-Calais Caroline Parmentier evoked a “total indecency”.

As for the secretary general of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, he declared in front of an audience of journalists: “I would like there to be no recovery, I can clearly see that today there is the will to use this which is still a news item, perhaps a terrorist fact, for purely political purposes.

The President of the Republic and his main competitors in 2022, Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, favored more sober messages, contrasting with the animosity of their colleagues, all political sensibilities combined.