At the Le Pen meeting in Avignon, “we are fed up with Arabs” and Macron – Liberation

ReportArticle reserved for subscribersPresidential Election 2022dossierThe far-right candidate gathered around 4,000 people in Vaucluse on Thursday. Among which are openly racist activists and supporters, who translate aloud the euphemisms of the finalist. A Thursday afternoon, at the Avignon exhibition center. Beautiful sun. Marine Le Pen between-two-towers meeting. A woman shakes her flag so hard that the fabric blows in the wind. A line of people stretches in front of the building, which looks like a large flying saucer. From a distance, you wonder if she would like to take these people very far, or maybe she just dropped them on the ground. Inside, 4,000 people in stifling heat. Cool 80s nightclub music, Goldman and Celine Dion. In the crowd, there is Jérôme Mories, 64, a skinny nervous man in dark aviator glasses, a little padded jacket. He lives in the Var, and he “says what he thinks”. He wants to “stay French”, he “can’t take it anymore”. He prays for Marine Le Pen to be elected on April 24. Otherwise, he promises “a bloodbath”. Main argument: “It must pass, it is fed up.” Enough to ? “Maghrebs and Arabs. We are attacked, it is a scandal. Macron, you have to shave him, you have to cut off his head and his balls, and shove him in his mouth. I say what I think. If he is the one who goes to the second round, it will be a bloodbath. The French must go out into the streets and return blood with blood.” Jerome has other concerns. He would like us to restore the speed limit to 90 km / h, but also to close the borders and, of course, “put the Arabs out”. “Little hole” Assisi not lo…