The intrusion into the Capitol recalls the feats of arms of the demonstrators in the fluorescent chasuble. But the Americans went further, pushed by a populist sitting president. Never seen.
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permanent envoy to Paris
Dn the night from Wednesday to Thursday, the tone of Emmanuel Macron was extremely serious when he spoke from the Elysee Palace. “I mean our common fight so that our democracies emerge stronger from this moment that we all live today”, he declared solemnly, at the stroke of three in the morning, even finishing his speech in English in front of a star-spangled banner. Never seen.
Was the French president thinking at this moment of the movement that had himself shaken him in the winter of 2018 and whose embers, two years later, are still not completely extinguished?
The images of the Capitol recalled scenes of extreme violence during the yellow vests movement: when demonstrators approached the Elysee Palace, ransacked the Arc de Triomphe, burned down a prefecture and smashed the door with a construction machine. of a ministry.
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