Mélenchon Criticizes French Officials for Targeting Muslims After Teacher’s Murder

Giving his opinion during an interview on the public radio station France Inter, Jean-Luc Mélenchon indicated that Muslims in France have been "shown as suspects" in recent days, denouncing French people who try to link Islam and terrorism. His outburst did not spare Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, who spoke of expulsion to Muslim countries, going as far as to oppose halal products. "It has always shocked me to go into a supermarket and see that there is a section of such community cuisine. That’s how communautarianism starts," he had declared.

In Mélenchon’s view, Muslims in France suffer much more than others, because they educate their children to respect the law, to be disciplined, to be good citizens, and suddenly a murderer comes to call into question all this education and Islam in general.

Even though there was a double attack in Oslo, Norway, during which a white supremacist had massacred more than 90 people at a political rally, "at no time did I compare the Norwegian assassin who killed 90 young people in the name of white supremacy and Catholicism with the Catholic religion which has nothing to do with this kind of massacre," concluded the French politician.