Unlike the march against anti-Semitism on Sunday, initiated by Yaël Braun-Pivet and Gérard Larcher, La France insoumise responded to the rally on Thursday, November 9th, in front of the gymnasium Japy, in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. Numerous party officials, including Clémence Guetté, Alexis Corbière, Raquel Garrido, and Clémentine Autain, joined a hundred people in front of the gymnasium Japy, where many Jews were corralled during the Occupation before being sent to concentration camps.
At the origin of this gathering was a call launched by the association Mémorial 98 and the Réseau d’Actions contre l’Antisémitisme et tous les Racismes in memory of the victims of the Nazi Kristallnacht, which was its 85th anniversary. “It is very important for me to find a moment, a place, to express my solidarity and empathy towards all those who are threatened or who suffer anti-Semitic acts. It is very important to make our voice heard,” said Seine-Saint-Denis MP Clémentine Autain to AFP.
And to mention the presence of the National Rally and the far right at Sunday’s march, boycotted by the movement: “It is unthinkable that the far right should have the right to exist in anti-Semitic demonstrations while we are prevented from expressing this solidarity and empathy,” added the MP.
The France Insoumise and the CGT participated in a gathering in memory of the victims of Kristallnacht in front of the gymnasium Japy in Paris, at the request of the association “Mémorial 98” and the “Réseau d’actions contre l’antisémitisme et tous les racismes.”
“How can we think of marching alongside the far right, the spiritual heirs of those who deported six million Jews, to denounce anti-Semitism? How can we accept to march against anti-Semitism alongside Éric Zemmour, convicted of denial?” declared Sophie Binet, the general secretary of the CGT to the crowd.
The former far-right presidential candidate and current president of the party Reconquête! has never been convicted of denial. He has been definitively convicted twice for incitement to hatred, for statements made in 2010 and 2016.
