A solidarity march bringing together elected officials and a dense crowd of residents walked the streets of the center of L’Haÿ-les-Roses (Val-de-Marne) on Monday afternoon, the day after the ram attack on the mayor’s home.
In this city of just over 30,000 inhabitants south of Paris, 2,400 people took part, according to figures from the municipal police, in a circular march around the town hall led by the mayor LR Vincent Jeanbrun. Acclaimed by the crowd, the 39-year-old city councilor, walking behind a banner “Together for the Republic! “, is framed at the head of the procession by tenors of his party, including the president of the Senate Gérard Larcher, the president of the Île-de-France region Valérie Pécresse and the boss of the Republicans Eric Ciotti. The leader of the Renaissance deputies (presidential majority) Aurore Bergé is also present in the front row of the parade.
There “ Marseillaise is intoned several times by the participants, while the mayor of this district capital responds to the cries of support coming from the sidewalks by forming a heart with his fingers. ” More than ever, our Republic and its servants are threatened “Launches Vincent Jeanbrun in front of his town hall. “ It is democracy itself that is under attackhe adds. Each of its symbols are targeted today: our town halls, our elected officials, teachers, our law enforcement and emergency services are targeted daily. Even our doctors and postal workers no longer enter certain neighborhoods. It can’t last, it won’t last “, continues the mayor. “Stop, that’s enough”, launches the city councilor, before the crowd chants after him “that’s enough!” “.
” What happened to him could have happened to any of us “, Estimates before the start of the march Mathieu Viskovic, socialist mayor of Noisiel, a town whose municipal police station and annex of the town hall were targeted by fireworks mortars last week. Anne-Laurence Delaule, deputy mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses in charge of education, hopes for her part that this march can be a “ trigger for a citizen outburst “.
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Concern of the inhabitants
“ I hope it will calm down “, slips Frederica Awazu, a resident of L’Haÿ-les-Roses. “ There are principles that must be preserved and that is the Republic. Nothing justifies what happened. I am not in the same camp as him, today we are 100% behind him “Launches Babak, another resident of Haÿ-les-Roses, at the microphone of RFI.
A little further in the procession, Eric, blue suit and sunglasses on his nose, brandishes a tricolor flag: “ For me, it is a strong symbol, that of the Republic. Unity around its flag and it must be respected for those who defended it for us. »
Unity is the key word of this march. But misunderstanding dominates. Aminata rightly wonders: Where are we going next? If we no longer have a representative in the city, what do we do? We are at a level of delinquency where people’s lives no longer count. »
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(and with AFP)