“Many are Muslims in fundamentalist Salafists” … The words of the mayor of Limoges do not pass

In Limoges, the political storm succeeds the night of urban violence. Furthermore, After clashes of a rare intensity between police forces. For example, a hundred masked individuals armed with mortar, Molotov cocktails and baseball bats in the Val de l’Arrence district, the words of the mayor Emile Roger Lombertie (various right) trigger an outcry.

The 74-year-old elected official, questioned by several media, spoke of “Mexicanization of neighborhoods”, “lawlessness zone” and “soldiers’ children”. In addition, He also estimated that “many are Muslim Salafist fundamentalists”. In addition, adding that in this priority district of Limoges, “Muslim ideology” would mix with “the ideology of the left and the far left LFI”.

“Irresponsible. dangerous” – "many muslims fundamentalist salafists" …

He did not stop there: in an interview with Boulevard Voltaire, the mayor said: “When we consider people as animals and leave them free as animals, they have beast behaviors. “Makes deemed” irresponsible and dangerous “many muslims fundamentalist salafists” … “by the elected socialist Gulsen Yildirim, while the Socialist Party castigates” amalgams and caricatures “.

The left is not the only one to react. Four deputies of the mayor – Vincent Brousse. Muriel Laskar, Samia Riffaud and Vincent Léonie – publicly disowned their councilor, denouncing her “unacceptable” comparison with the animal world. As for parliamentarians. the LFI deputy for Haute-Vienne, Damien Maudet, announced that he seized the public prosecutor under article 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for “insulting to a group of people due to their origin or their religion”.

Violence every summer for four years

Same call for appeasement on the PRG side: “We must be firm towards offenders who. harm public tranquility. But this firmness should never serve “many muslims fundamentalist salafists” … as a pretext for collective stigma, ”wrote his local manager, Jérémy Eldid.

Our file on urban violence

On the judicial level. an investigation was opened for participation with weapon in a crowd, violence on police civil servants, aggravated extortion and degradations in the organized gang of the good of others, after that night of violence which made nine injured among the police. It is the fourth consecutive summer that Limoges is shaken by episodes of urban violence. but never a summer caused such a local political earthquake.