Law enforcement is on high alert this Wednesday, August 7 in the United Kingdom amid fears of further violence. Riots have been taking place across the country for a week against a backdrop of racism and “fake news” following the murder of three young girls by a young British man whose parents are from Rwanda. Unsurprisingly, these events are being commented on by the political class in France, particularly by the far right.
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” England saw the failure of its communitarian model. Anger ended up exploding. “The analysis is signed by Matthias Renault, National Rally MP who, without supporting riots There is therefore a certain logic to it. Same tone for MEP Marion Maréchal Le Pen: “ Uncontrolled immigration, she wrote, threatens our security throughout Europe “.
Jordan Bardella, for his part, insists on the suspect’s Rwandan origin. To describe the knife attack, the leader of the RN uses a word often used by his political camp, the term “barbarism”. The extreme right is in the habit of making the link between immigration and insecurity. It uses this discourse with each tragedy of this type.
On the left, the positioning is completely different with a denunciation of anti-immigrant speeches. For the rebellious Antoine Léaument, ” UK chaos is what the National Rally wants to see in France “. “ The far right is civil war! “, comments communist Fabien Roussel.
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