By Yves Thréard
Published yesterday at 9:57 p.m., updated yesterday at 9:57 p.m.
Yves Thréard. Le figaro.
THE FIGARO EDITORIAL – There was a lot of crowding this Sunday, but what was most noticeable were the absences.
It’s fortunate that Paris didn’t show the face of London this weekend. On Saturday, around 300,000 people actually took to the streets of the British capital to shout their hatred of Israel. This demonstration says much about the state of mind of many in certain increasingly fragmented European societies. Nevertheless, we on this side of the English Channel would have wished that Sunday’s citizens’ march had gone without a bad word and without any missteps. Our country must “declare to the world that the French Republic does not and will never allow submissiveness to flourish,” says the appeal by Gérard Larcher and Yaël Braun-Pivet. However, we will especially remember the controversies and petty electoral calculations that surrounded that day. The fight against anti-Semitism deserved so much more… Sure there were crowds that Sunday, but it was the absences that were most noticeable.
Firstly, that of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his troops. The Insoumis, the…
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