“We won’t let anything pass. » On the evening of Tuesday April 25, the secretary general of Renaissance, Stéphane Séjourné, announced that he was filing a complaint for defamation against elected officials on the left. Some have associated the presidential party with the remarks of the first vice-president (various center) of the Departmental Council of Mayotte, Salime Mdéré. He had described the undocumented migrants in the slums of the department as “thugs” and of “terrorists” and called to “to kill”.
Quickly, Clémentine Autain denounced “a call for murder assumed by the vice-president LREM of the departmental council ». “Are the LREM elected officials going to condemn these unbearable remarks by the LREM vice-president of the Mayotte departmental council? »also asked the coordinator of La France insoumise Manuel Bompard.
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“An elected LREM from Mayotte and vice-president of the department calls for the direct murder of young Comorians during Operation Wuambushu. Ashamed. This is where the policy of our government leads”for his part reacted the leader of the Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, before taking « act » of the Renaissance denial.
Tweets that “tarnish the honor” of the party
“Contrary to what certain media or personalities have indicated, Mr. Salime Mdéré was not a member of La République En Marche, is not a member of Renaissance, he never obtained the nomination of our party and does not has not granted its sponsorship to the President of the Republic in 2022”had specified in a press release published Tuesday Renaissance.
“He has also been a member since 2021 of a departmental executive which strongly opposes the action of our majority” et “his remarks therefore in no way commit our party and call for an unambiguous condemnation of all political forces”added the presidential party.
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On Twitter, Stéphane Séjourné then estimated that these tweets, still online “despite the clear, sharp and unambiguous focus of our party” soiled “the honor and reputation of our political family”.
He announced that complaints will be lodged against elected officials whom he describes as “little slanderers and their infamy”before quoting them: Éric Piolle (EELV mayor of Grenoble), Clémentine Autain (LFI deputy), Manuel Bompard (LFI deputy), Marie-Pierre de la Gontrie (PS senator), Mélanie Vogel (ecologist senator), Éliane Assassi ( PCF senator), Guillaume Gontard (environmental senator) and “all the people who will continue to spread these false insinuations”. “Between withdrawing their lies and a few thousand retweets, they seem to have made their choice”he still lamented.
