Invited by BFMTV this Sunday, April 5, Dominique de Villepin considered it “difficult to deny” the racism of the comments directed at Bally Bagayoko, the new LFI mayor of Saint-Denis.
“Absolutely scandalous behavior.” Dominique de Villepin spoke out this Sunday, April 5 on BFMTV about the comments directed at the new LFI mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, which he acknowledges as racist.
“Unless you are deaf or blind, it is difficult to deny this reality. It is an undeniable reality,” reacted the former French Prime Minister.
“There are absolutely scandalous behaviors in a form of racism that can surprise a certain number of our compatriots. We are not like how we knew in the past with open insults, stigmatizations, we are in something implied, in a halo of racism, we play around through words,” he added.
“A dangerous logic of exclusion”
“What strikes me is that today we have an extreme right that preaches in favor of native French people and distinguishes between the French, it is a logic of exclusion that I believe is dangerous,” said the former diplomat while not sparing Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “He has developed a discourse on the New France based on a social and ethnic observation, the risk is that this New France will once again divide the French.”
Dominique de Villepin was not present this Saturday at the anti-racism rally organized in Saint-Denis at the call of Bally Bagayoko. However, he noted the participation of Benoît Jimenez, mayor of Garges-lès-Gonesse and president of La France Humaniste, the party created by the former Prime Minister.
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