Clément Beaune stressed on Sunday that the Human Rights League subsidies were not going to be reduced while Gérald Darmanin called on Wednesday for them to be reassessed.
The recent release of Gérald Darmanin on the League of Human Rights (LDH) does not fail to make people talk, even in the ranks of the government. Asked about France Inter on Sunday, the Minister of Transport, Clément Beaune, felt that his Interior counterpart “expressed a personal position”.
“I do not deny my history and my left culture, it would be strange, and therefore I use my own words, my own ideas, my own convictions. (…) I do not want to be in the reaction to others, I want to be able to have a voice in a collective project”, added Clément Beaune on France Inter.
“The Human Rights League is financed via the State by the budget of the Prime Minister and the budget of the Minister of National Education. I believe that the Prime Minister and the Minister of National Education, Pap Ndiaye have not expressed the slightest intention to reduce subsidies”, concluded the Minister of Transport.
LDH subsidies singled out by Darmanin
Heard on Wednesday before the Law Commission on the use of force by the police and the gendarmes during the demonstrations against the pension reform or in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres), the minister declared that “the subsidy given by the ‘State’ at the League of Human Rights “deserves to be looked at in the context of the actions that have been carried out”.
Following Gérald Darmanin’s remarks, 30,000 euros in donations were received within 24 hours by the association, which at the same time gained 675 new members.
