Commemorating the HIV vel ’roundup in this city of Loiret which saw several convoys leaving for Auschwitz, the Head of State repeated the responsibility of France in the deportation and assassination of 8,000 Jews . And he castigated the “falsification of the story” carried by the far -right polemicist.
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Everything had been said, we thought. Eighty years after the HIV vel roundup which led to the deportation of more than 8,000 Jews including some 4,000 children, “one might think that all this is far away. Eight decades … we could forget it”, observed Emmanuel Macron on July 17, during the gust commemorations. Before him, in 1995, President Jacques Chirac had assumed the shame that sank the country. Recognizing, finally, the responsibility of France in realization of the roundup and, in doing so, in the realization of the final solution, the founder of the RPR had admitted that France, on July 16 and 17, 1942, “accomplished the irreparable” , ending more than fifty years of denial.
However, from Pithiviers (Loiret), where the current president went on Sunday to inaugurate a new Holocaust memorial in the small town station, Emmanuel Macron still had a lot to say. “Let us have the lucidity to see our time. We have not finished with anti-Semitism,” he said in this place that is both cursed and sacred for the survivors, which, with the neighboring station of Beaune- La-Rolande saw eight convoys to Auschwitz leaving. “This anti -Semitism is even even more hot, crawling than it was in 1995, in our country, in Europe and in so many places in the world. It can of course take other faces, drape In other words, other caricatures. But the odious anti-Semitism, as Zola said, persists, persists, returns, “he insisted.
Without making concrete announcements, the head of state has enjoined the “republican forces” to double vigilance to “repress and punish”, and “commemorate and instruct”. Then, he listed the translations of this contemporary anti -Semitism, evoking social networks and, more seriously, the terrorist attacks, which, from rue des Rosiers to Montauban, decimated families because it is Jewish. But the fight of Emmanuel Macron, this Sunday, seemed above all political.
return to the roots of evil
A few months after a presidential campaign marked by the outrageousness of Eric Zemmour, the head of state attacked the former journalist in Le Figaro, without ever naming him. Referring to a “commentator”, he attacked the former far-right candidate who repeated on the estrades of his meetings as on the television channels that Marshal Pétain had “protected the French Jews”: ” -We not come good, still recently, to reopen a subject yet resolved for a long time by historians and lawyers on the participation of Pétain and the men of Vichy in the implementation of the final solution? So, let’s repeat the here with Force, and do not displease commentators being revisionist: neither Pétain nor Laval nor Bousquet or Darquier de Pellepoix, none of them wanted to “save” Jews. It is a falsification of history that To say, “he cut, hitting the fist on the table.
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