The elected official is heard by the regional crime squad in Montpellier, a judicial source who said that the hearing was held in the context of a preliminary investigation by the Prosecutor of Béziers “illegal holding of files because of ethnic origin “.
There are ” 64.6% “ of Muslim students in public school in Beziers, launched Mr. Ménard Monday night on France 2 during the emission Crossword, which focused on the crisis in the FN, without first providing any explanation of the origin of this figure.
“These are the figures of my town. Sorry to say, the mayor, class by class, the names of the children. I know I have no right to do so. Sorry to say, the names say confessions. To say the opposite is to deny the obvious “, said Mr. Ménard late issuance to a user who questioned the figure.
” There is no pointing of students in Béziers (…) and there never will be “, however assured Robert Menard at a press conference Tuesday afternoon, adding that it reserved “his other responses to judge if they are asked” .
Raids for mayor of Béziers
In the afternoon, four officers carried out a search at the town hall, which had, according to the Midi Libre yield any results, not confirmed by the prosecutor information.
Earlier, the prefect of the Languedoc-Roussillon Pierre de Bousquet and the rector of the Academy of Montpellier, Armande The Pellec, seized Justice pursuant to Article 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. It provides that an official with knowledge of a crime or a crime is required to inform without delay the floor.
“Reviving the debate”
“If it were to be proved, the existence of a data processing deducting from the supposed origin of a first name the real or supposed membership of a religion would be a particularly serious and manifest illegality the Act of 6 January 1978 on computers, files and freedom “, said the two officials said in a statement.
On an official visit to Riyadh, the President of the Republic strongly criticized Mr. Ménard, believing that personal data collection was “contrary to all the values of the Republic” .
“Shame on the mayor” Beziers Robert Menard, said in the morning Manuel Valls in a tweet, adding that “The Republic does not distinguish among its children” .
Robert Ménard is “outside of the Republic of values” with “FILING” Muslim pupils, added Bernard Cazeneuve as the minister of Education Najat Vallaud-Belkacem.
“Mr. Ménard, this is no longer Reporters Without Borders is racist limitless! “, mocked his side the first secretary of the PS Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, about the former president of RSF. Christian Jacob, head of UMP deputies also denounced what Mr. Ménard and welcomed that justice is entered.
“No racist act should go unpunished (. ..) The elected representatives of the Republic can not avoid their obligations and the moral imperative to ensure equality for all of their citizens’ , also said Gilles Clavreuil, interministerial delegate to the fight against racism.
The Muslim community has for its part called “shocked, disgusted” . The French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) evoked a “new form” Islamophobia and requested legal action, reserving the right of “before the competent courts” against Robert Ménard.
“Outraged” , the high school student union LDIFs asked Prime Minister “immediately suspend” biterrois the mayor, “pending the results of the investigation” .
Minorities in the viewfinder
Wednesday’s press sees this case with or without illustration Jean-Marie Le Pen, the FN program “is the same” . “This is, again and again, to blame the country’s difficulties to a minority that wants to exclude and to provide for that foreign coercive means to the republican tradition” , Libération .
Robert Ménard, this controversy has at least had the merit of “reopen the debate on ethnic statistics” “We need these statistics. In 2009, it was for Manuel Valls. Now he is against “, he recalled asking the Prime Minister to pass the law he had proposed to introduce in this direction when he was deputy mayor of Evry.
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