[Humeur] With the carnival the virus brings back its chariot

We remember the poem by Jacques Prévert: “Louis I, Louis II, Louis III… Louis XIX, then nothing. But what is this family that does not know how to count to XX ”. In Marseilles the kings know how to go as far as XXI. Particularly in La Plaine, which had had enough of being dreary, and therefore decided to organize its 21^th carnival. As in this unequaled city, we like to stand out, for many it would be without a mask, which would allow the coronavirus to continue its samba. ” At the same time “, as the macronists still say, it was announced that the themes of this masquerade would be political. It was thus a question of making, for fun, the trial of Martine Vassal queen of the departmental council on the air of “Come on mom bobo”. The court of miracles reproaches the right for having condemned the place Jean Jaurès, Noailles and the cours Julien to the “Gentrification”. “A great replacement”, as Michel Houellebecq would say, who would see bohemian bourgeois crazy for organic, new wave, and a little weed, chasing junkies and other taggers from these artificial paradises where heroines are dark and heroes without a future.

The disorganizers had long lost control, and what was bound to happen

“And long live the party” proclaimed some banners bearing the « A » libertarian. So they left five hundred, but by quick reinforcements, there were 6,500 when they arrived at the Old Port. The disorganizers had long since lost control, and what was to happen, when the pack turns into a riot.

We know the rest. A few thousand damage to street furniture, a handful of banks and stores guilty of being the representatives of capitalism, and a recently renovated merry-go-round. A dozen bawling revelers arrested and abandoned by their companions “Teuferie”. And then, as always, the politicians who swear, at the bar of the court of opinion, that the degenerate party is a defeat of those who govern at the local or national levels.

The microphones therefore reached out to those who had something to say or comment. Socialist Yannick Ohanessian, deputy delegate for security, engaged in a dispassionate analysis, which earned him to be treated by some left-wing opponents of « Gérald Darmanin ». However, he will only have deciphered the facts: “We have been asked for collective efforts for a year to deal with this pandemic, that necessarily involves individual responsibility”. The latter was swept away by a few hundred imbeciles. The cultural assistant, the communist Jean-Marc Coppola, could only bid while pleading leniency: « It is necessary to measure the state of frustration of people, and in particular of the youngest, but this does not excuse the imbecility of these irresponsible acts which serve the city of Marseille. » We understand all the more bitterness, when we know that the city was chosen as “Test city”, to judge the advisability of reopening the performance halls.

The right could, a year after its Bérézina only point the finger at this Waterloo of the municipality

The right obviously could, a year after its Bérézina only point the finger at this Waterloo of the new municipality. Still in the shade, Valérie Boyer spoke of a “Real attack on the health of the Marseillais”. And the senator, who is one of the few to have shaken hands with Assad the Syrian, to point out the terrorists of the moment “The left and the extreme left”.

Once again it is Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the deputy of the TGV Paris-Marseille, who struck the most people. As they say at OM, he chose the opposite: “ That’s enough now. The French are an adult people. People who go to a carnival do it responsibly and they are right to laugh in the face of the good conscience who reproaches them, when you see how it goes every morning on the metro or RER platforms in the Paris region.» The former professor demonstrates that between pedagogy and demagogy, there is ultimately only the difference of a… radical.

Well ! To paraphrase Chirac, it is at the end of this sad fair that we will count the positive cases and those who unfortunately will have to wear a… death mask.

In Marseille “The skin expands and inhales the sun like a great bath of light. “

Gustave Flaubert

What does this episode teach us, which could have been funny, if it were not fraught with consequences? That there is an overheating pot and young people deprived of those moments that make us unreasonable when we are 17, 18, 19 or 20 years old. That there are associations which claim, once a year, to be subsidized, in the name of the collective interest and which forget along the way that being a citizen is a right but requires duties. That we are living one of the moments in history when those who represent the Republic, wearing the tricolor scarf, have the imperative requirement to be up to the circumstances. That in Marseille, a rebellious city, as Gustave Flaubert wrote, “The skin expands and inhales the sun like a great bath of light. “ A Carnival should be part of this celebration! Otherwise Marseille will be Carmentran. The « lazy, dishonest, greedy and debauched ” that was burned during the carnival in the Middle Ages, after having exhibited it in the streets of the city. Sentenced for shouting too loudly.

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