Mélenchon Accuses Macron of Inflaming Tensions Over Muslim Veil Debate

The politician asks those who "play with fire to be careful", before attacking the Head of State, Macron.

"The President has poured oil on the fire. He is the one who called for a society of vigilance," he recalls, referring to Macron’s speech in which he called for a "society of vigilance" to stand firm against "the Islamist hydra", after the attack on the Police Headquarters, which had cost the lives of four police officers.

According to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the President of the Republic should not have "pointed the finger at the guilt of Muslims", knowing that the author of the shooting is a Muslim suspected of having radicalized but whose motivations have not yet been established," he added, lamenting "this hatred of Muslims, this stigmatization of a religion".

Speaking about communitarianism, Mélenchon felt that it represented, as usual, "a problem in relation to the republican idea".

For the native of Tangier, Morocco, it is time to work for the creation of jobs first in order to no longer talk about immigration as a problem. "The problem is not the veil. It’s the excessive dividends given to shareholders."

"It’s the contempt for the people," said the President of France Insoumise, before noting that President Macron is thus giving reason to the President of the Rassemblement national (RN): "With the class contempt displayed by Emmanuel Macron, he is certainly filling the bucket" of the leader of the Rassemblement national, Marine Le Pen, whom he describes as an empty beacon.