The presenter of Mayotte La 1ère immediately reacted to these remarks on Monday, which fall under the law.
A shocking statement in the midst of Operation Wuambushu. Salime Mdéré, first vice-president of the departmental council of Mayotte, described as “terrorists” young people who commit violence against the police, Monday April 24 on the La 1ère channel. He then raised the possibility of “kill” one of these young people during this crisis. These remarks, assimilated to a call to murder, fall under the law. Public incitement to hatred, violence or discrimination is a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in prison and a fine of 45,000 euros.
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These remarks were immediately denounced by the presenter. “I can’t let you say that. We can’t say that”, retorted Géniale Attoumani on the set. Contacted by franceinfo, the political manager did not respond to our requests.
“I refuse to use these terms: ‘young’ or ‘kids’. These delinquents, these thugs, these terrorists”, Salime Mdéré first said after the broadcast of a report on gangs of young people who attacked the police during Operation Wuambushu. The chosen one then continued: “At some point, it may be necessary to kill some. I weigh my words. If one is not killed, there are always others who will dare to try to kill police officers. If they kill police officers, where is self-defense in that? At the end of the interview, the chosen one insisted again: “At some point, if it has to come to this, it has to come to this.”
Salime Mdéré was elected with the Movement for the Renewal of the Great South, classified under the label various center, during the departmental elections of 2021. The Renaissance movement recalled, in a press release, that it had never been a member, nor invested by the presidential party. Iand leave “condemns in the strongest terms the intolerable remarks”he adds in a press release sent to franceinfo.
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The sequence, widely relayed on social networks on Tuesday, provoked many reactions in the political class. “These words, from an elected representative of the Republic, must be condemned without delay”, reacted the ecologist mayor of Grenoble, Eric Piolle. “This is where the policy of our government leads. I call for an immediate end to this operation”, went up the first secretary of the PCF, Fabien Roussel. “I do not see how he can be maintained in his functions. It damages the Republic”, for his part demanded the national secretary of EELV, Marine Tondelier.
The government also reacted. “I absolutely condemn the words of Salime Mdéré, wrote on Twitter the Minister Delegate in charge of Overseas Territories, Jean-François Carenco. Restoring order and fundamental principles must be done with determination, but with serenity: these words are not worthy of the Republic.” “I am appalled”added the prefect of Mayotte, Thierry Suquet, on France Culture. “Whatever the tense situation we are experiencing at the moment on the island, such comments are unacceptable and I strongly condemn them.”
Legal action will be taken. “The words of the vice-president of the department of Mayotte are a call for the murder of children. This falls under the law, reacted the lawyer at the Paris bar, Arié Alimi, with franceinfo. I solemnly call on the public prosecutor, the public prosecutors, to put an end to this type of remark by opening an investigation. The deputy LFI, Thomas Portes, announces for his part, on Twitterseized the public prosecutor “under Article 40 for public incitement to hatred, violence or discrimination.”
