The mayor PS of Paris announced Friday that a court, following a demonstration calling City hall “pedoland”.
Demand for apologies, accusations of “mccarthyism” culture : three weeks after their renewal to the city hall of Paris, the cloth burns between Anne Hidalgo and its allies environmentalists about Christophe Girard, deputy to the Culture pushed by the Greens to resign.
“I déférerai before the courts the severe and public insult which were directed against the city hall of Paris”, announced mayor PS in a press release sent Friday, after a meeting of all presidents of groups the majority. The mayor socialist denounces “remarks ” outrageous” and “banners ignominious brandies”, and promises that she will not “give up nothing”.
Thursday, so that was the first council of Paris of the backtracking, a thirty elected officials and feminist activists gathered on the steps of City hall. They demanded the opening of an internal investigation and the suspension of the deputy, heard in march in the investigation on the so-called case Matzneff, and pulled free of her hearing.
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In the hands of the protesters, placards and a banner as the “city of Paris, welcome to Pedoland”, have been deemed “shocking” by many elected officials of the majority and the opposition. “This is not a banner shock, it is a banner unworthy”, protested the president of the fédération parisienne du PS, Rémi Féraud.
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messages which have pushed the deputy for culture, Christophe Girard to resign, sparking a lot of anger in the ranks of the majority which elected him, showed their support until late Thursday evening, in his office.
“We’ll apologize to our partners, conservationists, not on their engagement that we respect, but on the excesses, including in the events, had warned earlier on Friday, Emmanuel Grégoire on Franceinfo.
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Friday, Christophe Girard was back on the benches of the chamber in single-councillor of Paris, when unexpectedly, the prefect of police, Didier Lallement, him address his support: “I want to send just a greeting republican Mr. Christophe Girard, who has given us yesterday (Thursday), gave me a great lesson of dignity. I want to greet the man.”
The chamber is set on fire, to the applause of the elect in the ranks of socialists, communists, and even in the opposition, come together while the elected Alice Coffin rants and raves, sending one word: “shame, shame, shame !”. Now, according to a communist, “the question that arises is on which Anne Hidalgo can count among ecologists ?”.
“Settlement of account”
“Anne Hidalgo has given a lot,” says a source of the majority, recalling that the environmentalists had gained 10.8% in the first round against nearly 30% for the list of Anne Hidalgo. “It’s violent what the environmentalists are doing from the outset.” “There are already regulations account so that the backtracking is just beginning. Their majority is in the flap before it has even begun”, raises Marie-Claire Carrere-Gee, elected in LR of the Fourteenth arrondissement. For the elected, “Ms. Hidalgo is trapped all alone on a thematic campaign Green.” “And the Greens in paris, we know them : they are ideologues who have no mind of manager !”
This is a “political subject”, to be defended in return David Belliard, the former head of the list EELV to the municipal and deputy of Transport of the mayor of Paris. “We’re no longer in the context of 2014. In the meantime, there was Me too, matters of ideals, of equality women-men… And our elected representatives are to the picture of this society that moves, of generations of activists who arrived today on the benches of an assembly,” says the elected official, who concedes that”they must learn to work together”.
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Anne Hidalgo does not hear as well. In its press release, it warned, without naming them, the two elected ecologists at the origin of the gathering, Raphaëlle Rémy-Leleu and Alice Coffin: they “have encouraged and supported these behaviors, [and] are thus placing themselves outside of the majority city”.
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The day before, in the corridors of City hall, the two neophytes do not hide their joy after the resignation of Christophe Girard, promising to “get to the tower Darmanin [the minister of the Interior accused of rape] now”. For David Belliard, the participation of EELV to the majority does not doubt: “It is not for us to subject particular, it continues to work” and “to be a part of it”.
