“It’s despicable, it’s indecent”, denounces Manuel Valls after the words of Eric Zemmour at the Bataclan – LCI

For Eric Zemmour, who does not hide his presidential ambitions, all opportunities seem good to make his campaign themes exist. When he came on Saturday in front of the Bataclan, on the evening of the sixth anniversary of the attacks of November 13, 2015, he made remarks qualified as“ignoble” and D'”insulting” by former Prime Minister Manuel Valls. “There are places that I believe are sacred. Eric Zemmour has the right to meditate, like any Frenchman, in front of the Bataclan. But to provoke controversy is precisely to forget that there are victims”, explains the guest of Darius Rochebin this Sunday on LCI.

“He knew there would be terrorists and did not protect the French and made a criminal decision to leave the borders open”, Eric Zemmour reproached François Hollande to the press on Saturday when he was in front of the concert hall, where 90 people were murdered six years ago. Friday in Bordeaux, the polemicist had maintained that “the authorities were aware of the danger and preferred that the French die rather than prevent migrants from coming to France”.

“Undoubtedly, there have been loopholes at the borders of Europe”, recognizes Manuel Valls. The former Prime Minister however wishes to recall the extent of the flow, which in particular “disarmed” Greece in July 2015, when Abdelhamid Abaaoud, accompanied by Ayoub El Khazzani, the Thalys terrorist, entered the continent. “And in August, when the flow entered Germany and when Madame Merkel opened the borders a few weeks later, the Islamic State decided to massively infiltrate the networks of migrants”, he adds, specifying “not to look for excuses”.

“For the politician and for the patriot that I am, act and avoid attacks, including that of Argenteuil, and on the other side see that they have nevertheless fallen through the cracks on several occasions, It is necessarily an injury. But what I know is that we did everything to protect the French “, he assures, citing in particular the strikes sponsored by François Hollande in Raqqa and Mosul.

Faced with Darius Rochebin, Manuel Valls said he was still very marked by these attacks. “For me, it’s always a little difficult to tackle the issue through simple political debate or controversy, because behind it, there are broken lives, deaths, families and loved ones who still mourn them, injured people who will carry their physical or psychological wounds all their life “, he explains. “I was forever marked by my encounters with these victims, these young people who were enjoying life at the Bataclan or on a café terrace. It is always of them, irreparably, that I think of.”