The Keeper of the Seals Éric Dupond-Moretti assured Wednesday “not to regret” his remarks the day after an incident in the National Assembly around a proposal for a resolution on Israel, remarks for which the deputy LFI Manuel Bompard had asked him excuses. Tuesday, during the session of questions to the government, the Keeper of the Seals pointed the finger at “the far right” but especially “the far left” and a recent proposal, signed by around forty elected leftists who condemn the “apartheid regime” of Israel against the Palestinians, “an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by a single racial group”. The text had recently caused controversy and provoked a series of condemnations of associations.
“I don’t regret my words”
Manuel Bompard, who is not a signatory of the resolution, demanded an apology from Élisabeth Borne and Éric Dupond-Moretti on Wednesday morning on RFI, “because we cannot utter against a part of the national representation of accusations of anti-Semitism”, this “without any fact: no person from LFI has ever been suspected, convicted, prosecuted, for anti-Semitic remarks or acts”, he argued.
“I do not regret my words and what I said, I said it in the hemicycle (…) No I do not regret anything I said”, insisted Wednesday Éric Dupond-Moretti , questioned by journalists during a press briefing on the sidelines of a trip to the Baumettes prison in Marseille.
Apologies also requested from Borne
The LFI deputy for Marseille, Manuel Bompard, also urged the Minister of Justice on Wednesday, “if he considers that there are anti-Semites in the National Assembly”, to “bring them to court”, because the anti-Semitism is “not an opinion but a crime”. He also accused the government of “using this accusation as a form of paralyzing ray to disqualify this or that political formation.”
The rebellious Aymeric Caron had also asked Elisabeth Borne on Tuesday for an “apology” after she had estimated, by targeting LFI, that being a Republican “is not the case for everyone on these benches” of the Assembly.
Source: Europe1
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