After a speech denouncing the extreme-right ideas, the French Souvenir Committee of Woerth was “put in standby” by the regional management. Benoît Sigrist, who delivered the speech, is targeted by a complaint from the deputy RN Théo Bernhardt to which the association went so far as to present excuses.
Lucie Dradem
“While the XXe century seemed to have touched the bottom of horror, […] Our century is unfortunately the scene of a new and disturbing reappearance of extremist ideas. »» Thus concluded the commemoration speech of the battle battle of Froeschwiller-Woerth in 1870 by Benoît Sigrist, president of the French Souvenir Committee of Woerth.
On a platform mounted for the occasion in Morsbronn-les-Bains, in the north of Alsace, Benoît Sigrist embarks on a tirade against “Brown and nauseating ideologies (…) from the far right”in “Incessant research of scapegoats” and which create a context favorable to wars.
In the public, the deputy for the National Rally (RN) of the 8e Bas-Rhin district, Théo Bernhardt, does not appreciate. For him, this speech is a “Insults to the 13 million voters of the national rally”. He awaits the end of the ceremony to confront Benoît Sigrist in person. The next day, the 25 -year -old elected official announced in a video on social networks that he files a complaint for “public defamation”.
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