VIDEO. Rafle du Vel d’Hiv: “This tweet is there to sound the alarm”, says Mathilde Panot after the controversy – franceinfo

His tweet continues to make waves. Sunday July 17, 2022, Emmanuel Macron commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Rafle du Vel d’Hiv by inaugurating, in the company of survivors, a new place of memory in the old station of Pithiviers (Loiret), from which left eight convoys for Auschwitz-Birkenau.>> Vel’d’Hiv: Mathilde Panot criticizes “a president who honors Pétain” and causes an outcry within the political class The day before, the leader of the LFI deputies Mathilde Panot reproached , on Twitter, to Emmanuel Macron for having “honored Pétain” in 2018, arousing indignant reactions in the majority. “80 years ago, the collaborationists of the Vichy regime organized the Vel d’Hiv roundup. Do not forget these crimes, today more than ever, with a President of the Republic who honors Pétain and 89 deputies RN”, tweeted Mathilde Panot on Saturday. On franceinfo, Monday July 18, Mathilde Panot returned to the controversy indicating that “this tweet is there to launch the alert”: “A commemoration is a” moment of homage “to the victims, but “it is also a moment where we must point out responsibilities”, considers Mathilde Panot. “Where do you see that I compare Macron and Pétain? Of course not Emmanuel Macron is not Philippe Pétain. Explain to me where did I make an equals sign. The tweet is a way of paying tribute and sounding the alarm,” said LFI MP Mathilde Panot. pic.twitter.com/eeymn6ksFq – franceinfo (@franceinfo) July 18, 2022 Wanting to “clarify”, the deputy of Val-de-Marne explained herself: “If there is a duty to remember, there is also a duty vigilance on resurgences [de l’antisémitisme]. What I wanted to say with this tweet is that there are 89 RN deputies in the Assembly and that it is not admissible as the president had said in 2018 to pay tribute to Pétain ” , stating that he made this tweet “to raise the alarm.”

“A tweet of this type does not serve the memory of the Holocaust and seems to me inappropriate”, denounced this Monday on franceinfo Yonathan Arfi, new president of Crif, after the tweet of the president of the LFI group in the Assembly Mathilde Panot. “False historical comparisons are dangerous,” he said. Tweet by Mathilde Panot ➡️ “The memory of the Shoah cannot support any manipulation, any recovery”, according to the president of CRIF. “We have 89 RN deputies, we have an important bloc around LFI. For French Jews, they are problematic.” pic.twitter.com/OEjKo9u3WN — franceinfo (@franceinfo) July 18, 2022