LIVE – 80 years of Vel d’Hiv: Elisabeth Borne calls on France “to look its history in the face” – BFMTV

12:33 “Delivering 13,000 people to death”: Borne accuses France of having “lost its soul” during the Vel d’Hiv roundupFor her speech to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Vel d’Hiv roundup, Elisabeth Borne judged that “these days of July, France (had) lost part of its soul”. further advanced the Prime Minister. Hiv, 80 years after the events, Elisabeth Borne judges a harsh look at the government of the time. “It is indeed our laws, it is indeed our police who stopped thousands of faults, it is indeed our country which left them to suffocate here,” she said. “The French state has gone further than the demands of the Nazis,” she added. 12:2080 years of Vel d’Hiv: Elisabeth Borne calls on France “to re keep her story in the face”Elisabeth Borne gave a speech this afternoon for the 80th anniversary of the Vel d’Hiv roundup on the site of the old velodrome in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.”Our country must look its history in the face “, judged the Prime Minister, herself the daughter of a deportee. France only recognized its responsibility in 1995 during a speech by Jacques Chirac. 11:06 “Leave the dead in peace”: the ecologist Esther Benbassa in turn condemns Panot’s tweet on the Vel d’Hiv Environmental senator Esther Benbassa also reacted to the tweet of the patron saint of Nupes deputies Mathilde Panot, expressing her “esteem”, while condemning her remarks. “I say stop (…) Let’s leave the dead in peace, let’s not exploit them”, she calls. “Macronism is our adversary, but it’s not Vichy”, she believes.10 :56Tweet from Panot: RN MP Sébastien Chenu believes that MP Nupes “better shut up” RN MP Sébastien Chenu in turn condemns the tweet of the patroness of the Nupes deputies Mathilde Panot on Emmanuel Macron and the Vel d’Hiv roundup, accusing him of being “ignorant (sic) of our history”. “The controversy serves this cause of national unity”, he estimated, considering that “these provocations have only one object in reality, it is to aim to hide the anti-Semitism which is lurking in the shadow of insubordinate France”. “Mathilde Panot (.. .) would do better to close it”, he scolded. 10:45 Tribune denouncing the words of Caroline Cayeux: “it is not for me to ask for the resignation”, declares a Renaissance deputy it is up to me as a parliamentarian to ask for the resignation”, declares the deputy Renaissance Benoît Bordat this Sunday on BFMTV. He is a signatory of the platform which denounces the homophobic remarks of the Minister Caroline Cayeux. “I spoke to say that there is a problem in this country: there must be a real responsibility in public speech” , he explains. Today “when there is a slippage the next day we apologize and then we move on and wipe the slate clean”, while “young people are thinking about suicide in relation to their sexual orientation, their identity , I could not remain silent”. 10:31 Emmanuel Macron is “irreproachable in the fight against anti-Semitism”, declares the vice-president of CrifThe President of the Republic, “like all his predecessors since Jacques Chirac, whom he whether Nicolas Sarkozy, François Hollande or Emmanuel Macron, have always shown their desire to really fight against anti-Semitism in France”, assures Gérard Unger, vice-president of Crif, this Sunday on BFMTV, after being questioned on the statement by LFI MP Mathilde Panot. Emmanuel Macron is “irreproachable in the fight against anti-Semitism”, he then adds. du Crif”Anti-Semitism still lurks, and it kills (…) anti-Semitism is still very present”, recalls on BFMTV this Sunday Gérard Unger, vice-president of Crif. “We can be worried about a certain revisionism, but at the same time we see that the Republic is doing what it has to do,” he adds. “My grandson in CM2 worked on the Vel d ‘Hiv, the children learn what this Vel d’Hiv roundup is which has been hidden for more than 20 years from the memory and remembrance of the French people”.10:20The Vel d’Hiv roundup marks “the most closer between Vichy and the Nazis”, declares the vice-president of CrifThe Vel d’Hiv roundup is also “the manifestation of the collaboration between the French State of Vichy and the Nazi occupiers, the French State which lends its police to arrest the Jews,” said Gérard Unger, vice-president of Crif. He recalls “the closest collaboration between Vichy and the Nazis” on those days “with the arrest then the deportation and death of more than 13,000 arrested Jews”. 10:00 Vel d’Hiv: indignant reactions from the majority after a tweet from Panot “Shame”, “abject”, “nausea”: a tweet from the leader of the LFI deputies Mathilde Panot, reproaching in particular Emmanuel Macron for having “honoured Pétain” in 2018, arouses a volley of indignant reactions in the majority on the day of the commemorations of the Rafle du Vel d’Hiv. The Minister for Transport, Clément Beaune, called on Mathilde Panot to withdraw her tweet and to present “her apologies to France, quickly”. “Beyond shame. We dare not believe it,” he reacted on the same social network. Relaying this call to withdraw the controversial tweet, Renaissance MP Prisca Thévenot said on CNews on Sunday that LFI had “succeeded in winning the palm of the abject, the unworthy”. , after having voted several amendments with the RN. LFI is no longer an ideological contortion. It is unworthy of the memory of the victims, it is a daughter of hidden children who tells you “, wrote on Twitter former minister Emmanuelle Wargon. For the RDPI senator with the majority En Marche Julien Bargeton, “it is not a slippage. It is the consequence of the systematic attitude consisting in making any subject an opportunity for conflict, without respect for memory or the Republic”. “What a shame!”, “Nausea”, “No limit in indecency”, reacted again respectively the ministers Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, Isabelle Rome and Olivier Dussopt. 9:40 How to bring the history of deportees and resistance fighters to life after their death80 years after the Veld’Hiv, 77 years after the end of the Second World War, the witnesses of this period are less and less likely to be alive. When a witness dies, “it is a loss for the work of memory, civic-mindedness, pedagogy” that his story allows”, explains to BFMTV.com the historian Hélène Camarade. And if their stories can be transmitted by others mouths, “it’s not the same, there is not the force conveyed by a lived testimony”, declares Jacques Varin, secretary general of Anacr (National Association of Veterans and Resistance fighters). Our complete article HERE. 9:02 Homophobic remarks by Caroline Cayeux: “if she has a little honor and although she resigns”, launches an elected LR from Île-de-France “The minister’s regrets would have had a real impact if they had had at least the strength of sincerity”, declared on BFMTV Patrice Karam, vice-president Les Républicains of the regional council of Île-de-France, signatory of the tribune published in the JDD. “She is not sincere , she does it to change her position, if she has a little honor and even though she resigns”.8:30Homophobic remarks by Caroline Cayeu x: “there are certain wounds, speeches, wounds that have not passed”, declares an MEP Pierre Karleskind, MEP Renaissance, is a signatory of the tribune published in the Journal du Dimanche denouncing the “homophobic remarks” of the Minister Caroline Cayeux. “In this forum the word resignation does not appear, it is the homophobic nature of the comments that were made” which is denounced, he explains. “There are certain wounds, speeches, wounds that have not passed since the debate on marriage for all”, he declares, and “it is not possible and we must draw the consequences”. He talks about “hurtful and excluding” remarks. 7:29 A survivor of the Vel d’Hiv, she testifies: “if I tell my story it’s for the children who have not returned” Arlette Testyler is a survivor of the Vel d’Hiv roundup of Winter. On July 17, 1942, at the age of 9, she was arrested with her sister and her mother and brought to the Vélodrome d’hiver in Paris. Transferred to the Beaune-la-Rolande camp (Loiret) she managed to escape thanks to her mother. She and her sister will then be hidden with farmers until the end of the war. “If I tell my story it’s for the children who didn’t come back, if I don’t, they will die a second time. They don’t already have any graves,” she explains on BFMTV. children – arrested in Paris and its suburbs on July 16, 1942 and the following days by 9,000 French officials, at the request of the Germans. 8,160 of them, including the elderly and the sick, were taken to the Velodrome stadium in Winter, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. Before being evacuated to the camps of Drancy (Seine-Saint-Denis), Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande (Loiret). From Pithiviers station alone, eight convoys then left for the extermination camps, for more than 8,000 deportees, making it the second largest deportation site in France after Drancy. Only a few dozen adults will survive. 7:14 Emmanuel Macron expected at 3 p.m. in Pithiviers to inaugurate The Head of State will deliver an “offensive speech” this Sunday against anti-Semitism, which “still lurks and sometimes insidiously”, which is “very worrying”, announced an adviser to the Elysée. During this commemoration for the 80th anniversary of the Vel d’Hiv Roundup, Emmanuel Macron will also denounce “historical revisionism”, in particular on the role of Marshal Pétain during the Second World War, according to him. Accompanied by several personalities, including the he historian Serge Klarsfeld, the survivor of the camps Ginette Kolinka, or even the CEO of the SNCF Jean-Pierre Farandou, Emmanuel Macron is expected at 3 p.m. in the small station of Pithiviers, about a hundred kilometers south of Paris, which has been welcoming more travelers since the end of the 1960s and which has just been transformed into a museum by the Shoah Memorial.