The French political class expresses “its affection and solidarity with the Belgian people”.
France’s political class expressed its “solidarity” with Belgium on Monday evening on X (formerly Twitter) after a man currently on the run killed two people with a gun in Brussels. “Our hearts are with the victims and our Swedish friends after this heinous attack,” said Stéphane Séjourné, general secretary of the president’s Renaissance Party, calling for “fighting Islamist terrorism to the end.” “Let’s not let these criminals divide us! “, he added.
“Terrorism is advancing and threatening our values, our lives and those of our children,” reacted Eric Ciotti, leader of the Les Républicains (LR) party. “Let’s stop shaking, let’s act before they strike!”, he said. For the Rassemblement National (RN), Marine Le Pen lamented “a new Islamist terrorist attack” and addressed her thoughts “to the victims, their families and relatives as well as the Belgian and Swedish people in this terrible ordeal.” “.
“Affection and solidarity with the Belgian people affected by a terrorist attack,” responded the leader of the deputies of La France insoumise (LFI), Mathilde Panot, and addressed her thoughts “to all the relatives of the victims”.
The PS mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, whose city was devastated by the attacks of November 13, 2015, reiterated that she would “stand with our brothers and sisters in Brussels with all our hearts” and addressed “ours” on behalf of the residents of the French capital Thoughts for the victims of this new attack”. “Terrorism is the war of cowards,” said Olivier Faure, the PS’s first secretary, who expressed his “thoughts of solidarity with Brussels, which in turn is a victim of Islamist fanaticism.”