2023-08-21 15:16:24
EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP Marine Tondelier, at a press conference at EELV headquarters in January 2023..
EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP
Marine Tondelier, at a press conference at EELV headquarters in January 2023..
POLICY – Last minute cancellation of the Ecologist Summer Days. The EELV mayors of Strasbourg and Bordeaux, Jeanne Barseghian and Pierre Hurmic, will not travel to Le Havre from August 24 for the party meeting reports L’Express this Monday, August 21. Information confirmed at HuffPost by the entourage of Marine Tondelier, national secretary of the green party.
The reason for this withdrawal is in one name: Médine, Le Havre rapper invited by the party and accused since of having made anti-Semitic remarks on X (formerly Twitter) once morest the essayist Rachel Khan. Despite the controversy, the rapper’s invitation was upheld by management. As a result, some guests refused to participate. Jeanne Barghesian, who was to lead a ” citizen sofa Saturday is one of them, as is Pierre Hurmic.
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“We completely respect the opinion of Jeanne Barghesian. It is normal that there are different sensitivities within the party.minimized with the HuffPost the entourage of Marine Tondelier warned upstream. As for Pierre Hurmic, we limit ourselves to pointing out that unlike the mayor of Strasbourg, the city councilor of Bordeaux did not have a workshop to lead.
« At a time when the climate emergency is cruelly reminding us of the need for urgent solutions, we have too many challenges to face to disperse ourselves in futile polemics. Let’s be clear: anti-Semitism, wherever it comes from, is an infamy to be fought », justifies for his part Pierre Hurmic in a press release to be published.
Medina, “should not have invited him” to the Greens
The two aediles are not the first to publicly express their opposition to the invitation of Medina. On August 18, MEP Karima Delli disassociated herself by launching the hashtag “Medina should not invite him”. “I am an ecologist and a woman on the left, viscerally attached to respect for people, freedom, equality, solidarity & secularism. Therefore, I cannot support, and even less condone, the invitation of Medina., she wrote on X (ex-Twitter). Hauts-de-Seine MP Francesca Pasquini followed suit. But neither of them explicitly announced the cancellation of their visit.
Opposite, other party members ask to see. This is the case of Julien Bayou, who considers the excuses of Medina insufficient and has demanded additional explanations. ” It is important to have this debate but I trust Marine Tondelier to interrupt it if the clarification is not made”, insisted the elected official of Paris on LCI on August 17. The environmental mayor of Lyon Grégory Doucet has planned to go to Le Havre to judge for himself. “Medine is invited to the summer days, he will be there. I will go listen to it and form my own opinion, in front of the person himself, far from comments and chatter”he said on BFMTV on August 19.
On the management side, Marine Tondelier is in touch. Asked regarding the calls to annul Medina, within and outside her party, she refers to « l’impact » that might have a strong clarification from the artist. “Medine claimed to gradually make the link between the oppression he feels as racialized from a working-class neighborhood and that of victims of homophobia or police violence, employees fighting to save their jobs, etc. Logically, this should lead him to engage in the fight once morest anti-Semitism.she answers in The Parisian at 72 hours of D-Day.
Before Jeanne Barseghian and Pierre Hurmic, the Minister in charge of Industry, Roland Lescure, had also canceled his visit, when he was to participate in a debate on green reindustrialization.
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