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2021-11-15 Europe
France’s far-right leader Zemmour under fire over Bataclan tirade
[IsraelTimes] Likely presidential candidate slams ex-president Hollande’s migration policy at site of 2015 Islamic State massacre; survivor says he is acting like a ’grave desecrator’

French far-right presidential hopeful Eric Zemmour
...the eminent, contrary Le Figaro columnist whose Jewish Berber parents left Algeria for la belle France in the 1950s...
came under fire on Sunday for delivering a blistering attack against ex-president Francois Hollande
...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist...

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’s migration policy during commemorations marking the November 2015 Gay Paree attacks.

Zemmour, an ultra-nationalist TV pundit who has made no secret of his desire to run for president in April’s election, made the remarks during a visit Saturday night to the Bataclan theatre in Gay Paree, where 90 concertgoers were massacred during a series of coordinated attacks across the French capital on November 13, 2015.

The attacks, which left 130 people dead in total, were carried out by a 10-man Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS) cell, mostly French and Belgian nationals, some of whom had traveled to Syria to join IS and returned to La Belle France to carry out the attacks.

Addressing news hounds outside the Bataclan, 63-year-old Zemmour, who is Jewish, accused La Belle France’s then Socialist president Hollande of "criminal" negligence for failing to detect those attackers who slipped into Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
among a huge influx of Syrian migrants colonists.

"He knew there would be Death Eaters and did not protect the French and took the criminal decision to leave the borders open," said Zemmour, who is polling strongly on an anti-Islam, anti-immigration platform, despite having yet to formally announce his candidacy.

The veteran former political journalist argued that even those attackers who had French nationality "would have been caught" if La Belle France, where jihadists had slaughtered a group of cartoonists 10 months earlier, had shut its borders.

Hollande, who was called to testify this week at the trial of 20 people charged over the bloodshed, including the sole surviving member of the IS cell behind the attacks, Salah Abdeslam, accused Zemmour of an "unsubstantiated, obscene and shameful" attack.

"It’s obscene to be in front of the Bataclan and to be talking about a war of civilization," Hollande told a Jewish community radio station, Radio J, referring to Zemmour’s characterization of the attacks.

Survivors and relatives of the victims of the Gay Paree attacks also denounced Zemmour for playing politics on the anniversary of the massacre.

Arthur Denouveaux, a survivor of the Bataclan attack who heads the Life for Gay Paree victims association, accused Zemmour of acting like a "grave desecrator."

"We are highly outraged by this political exploitation of terror victims," he said in a statement shared on Twitter.

Zemmour is vying with National Rally leader Marine Le Pen for the leadership of La Belle France’s nationalist right.

Some polls show him overtaking her to become Macron’s top rival.

Others show Le Pen, 53, still the most likely to defeat candidates from the mainstream right and the left for a place in the second-round run-off against Macron — as she did in 2017.

All polls currently show 43-year-old Macron, who has yet to announce he is seeking re-election but is expected to do so, winning a second term.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-11-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top
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#1 "We are highly outraged by this political exploitation of terror victims"

...but not outraged at the perfidy and incompetence and mendacity if your government, which brought these monsters into your nation.

Who's playing politics now, p'tit con?
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-15 01:36||   2021-11-15 01:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Not unlike our own D.C. masters, they refuse to see beyond the walls of the Citidel.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-11-15 01:47||   2021-11-15 01:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Vauban? D'ou?
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-15 01:50||   2021-11-15 01:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Bitche.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-11-15 01:54||   2021-11-15 01:54|| Front Page Top

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