DIA-November 04, 2022: Serious slippage in the French Assembly. The session of questions to the government was almost coming to an end, this Thursday afternoon when LFI-Nupes deputy Carlos Martens Bilongo took the floor to discuss the fate of migrants in the Mediterranean. No sooner had he begun his remarks than suddenly, in the distance, a voice was heard: “Let him return to Africa”.
The sentence, which the ushers of the National Assembly have officially transcribed and published in a report of the meeting, immediately arouses strong indignant reactions on the benches of the left and the macronie, where one denounces a racist skid to the place of a dark-skinned chosen one. “Who is the deputy who has just pronounced this sentence?”, asks in the wake of Yaël Braun-Pivot, the president of the National Assembly. Before blowing: “it’s not possible”, and suspending the session.
The offending output comes from Grégoire de Furnas, RN deputy for Gironde. Which evoked, according to a press release from his party, the boat transporting migrants to Europe and these remarks in no case (were made) when speaking of the deputy. A version supported by the person concerned, who regretted a disgusting manipulation, and refused to present apologies for what he considers to be a false controversy. When the deputy from La France insoumise spoke of the SOS Méditerranée boat which was unable to land on European shores, I replied ‘that it is going back to Africa’. Let him, the boat, return to Africa, he assured.
Marine Le Pen defended Grégoire de Fournas. The latter referred to the migrants transported by NGO boats. The controversy created by our political opponents is crude and will not deceive the French, said the president of the RN group on Twitter.
