Marine Le Pen lamented the statements, Saturday, from the head of state. Among the Republicans, Michel Barnier and Valérie Pécresse believe that France must stop apologizing about the Algerian war.
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There are those who consider that Emmanuel Macron went too far, and those for whom it was too little. During the tribute delivered on Saturday, October 16 to the victims of the bloody police repression of a manifestation of Algerians, on October 17, 1961 in Paris, the President of the Republic judged these “inexcusable for the Republic” crimes.
It is too much for those who, on the right, want to finish with what Marine Le Pen calls “these repeated repentances”. These become “unsustainable”, said the candidate of the national gathering (NR) to the presidential election, “while Algeria insults us every day”. Because, for the most extremist, the massacre is not a – Jean-Marie Le Pen denounced “ The legend of the deaths of 1961″ on Twitter -, or it is necessary to qualify: “There was no hundreds of deaths spoken, said Eric Zemmour. The most serious historians speak of between thirty deaths and forty deaths. I repeat, there were about fifty police officers between 1958 and 1961. “
Michel Barnier and Valérie Pécresse, both candidates for the party the Republicans (LR), also recalled that the Algerian war had made victims on both sides. “This bloody repression, said M me Pécresse, was a tragedy. But I would have liked that the President of the Republic associates with the memory of the victims of this event the memory of the twenty-two policemen French who lost their lives in FLN attacks that same year 1961. “
” ambiguities and silences “
The President of the Ile-de-France region has warned that it would neither cede “a one-way reconciliation” nor to “one-way repentance”. “Me, I will not give in repentance,” promised Michel Barnier echo. “We must stop being permanently apologized by our history, explained the former European Commissioner. There are shadows and lights in this story, more lights than shadows. It is a great story than that From France, and I am proud of it. “And, he added, France can not travel alone” along the time of reconciliation with Algeria “. “To be reconciled, you have to be two”, has given M me pecresse.
For these figures on the right, Mr. Macron’s diplomatic policy is not the right one. Like Xavier Bertrand, also candidate at LR. Recalling that the head of state compared in 2017 the colonization of Algeria to a crime against humanity, then denounced, four years later, “the memorial annuity of Algerian power”, he questioned: ” Where is the coherence? “If we want France to be respected, he said, the President of the Republic can not” say one thing and to eradicate the next day “.
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