Hundreds of people found themselves, Wednesday night, in the hometown of the far-right candidate to protest against his “rancies” ideas.
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Initially, it was a question of protesting the arrival of Eric Zemmour in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis) for a BFM-TV show. The filming was finally transferred elsewhere due to the refusal to host the candidate stated by the plan manager of the planned place. The Mayor, Patrice Bessac (French Communist Party), nevertheless maintained the proposed appointment. Several hundred people of all ages have actually gathered, Wednesday, February 9 at the end of the afternoon, on the great place of the city, in front of the town hall, to mark their opposition to the polemicist and “show that a happy France and United is possible “. On this occasion, Mr. Bessac launched his “Montreuil’s call”, encouraging all those who refuse “rancies” ideas defended by the reconquest candidate! to “take up the head”.
The gathering of Montreuil had a strong symbolic dimension. It is in this municipality of the near suburb of Paris that Eric Zemmour was born in 1958, in a modest family Arrival of Algiers in France in 1952. The Seine-Saint-Denis is a department that the old columnist presents Often as a “foreign enclave”, the evidence and even emblem of this far-right theory of the “big replacement” that it propagates. Is not the department where, Mayotte except for the proportion of immigrants in the population is the highest?
“Even if it is here his hometown, he says anything”, assure Swann and Myriam, two high school students of 15 years, Wednesday night, say “No to Zemmour” and “forget it by doing celebration “. Luce Ahodi, who works in a bank, does not say something else: “Eric Zemmour is perhaps born here, but he obviously forgot what this city is. Montreuil, it is the international airport of all immigrants , and we are proud of it! A city where we fight for a better world. “
” This is here at home “
Sama and Amane, two mothers of the popular district of La Nue, do not take any praise either on the model showed by Montreuil. “What’s the word, already? Frat … Yes, Fraternity, that’s it,” says Sama. And to quote what she notes at the neighborhood house: “each his origins, his religion, his culture, but frankly we do not feel the difference. Once a month, we find ourselves for a meal in common, where the ‘We share recipes. Come tomorrow, we will learn to make Vietnamese cuisine. “
At the microphone, Assia, a girl of Algerian origin, pleads the same cause: “Algeria, I only know for the holidays. It is here at home. I am 20 years old, I am Muslim, I understand that it gives rise to questions, but it does not justify to be afraid. “
For Mr. Bessac, Montreuil has nothing in the foreign enclave described by Mr. Zemmour. “Our city is like the country,” he says. Everyone comes from somewhere, everyone is here at home. “Reason for which he intended to protest the arrival of the candidate for the presidential election and request , from now on, “All Democrats” to “prevent the deployment of these obscure forces.” A position obviously denounced by the supporters of Mr. Zemmour: “Montreuil does not belong to his communist mayor who drags in the main principles , that the Communist Party has always trampled and tramples, to prohibit the arrival of Zemmour, “wrote his spokesman, Gilbert Collard, on Twitter, February 2nd.