Asked about France 3 on Sunday, Emmanuel Macron declared himself “shocked” and deemed the “totally unacceptable scene”. These facts “shock me and I condemn them with the greatest firmness”, reacted the candidate president. “I fight Ms Le Pen’s ideas but with respect,” he added.
The set where Marine Le Pen finished recording a duplex program to be broadcast on Sunday on France 3 “was invaded by activists from several nationalist organizations in Guadeloupe”, including the National Alliance Guadeloupe (ANG), reported the Guadeloupe La Première channel, which itself had to cancel a live interview scheduled for 7:30 p.m. local time.
“There were no real clashes or violence but rather intimidation vis-à-vis Marine Le Pen”, reported the journalist of the channel on the spot.
Evacuated from the plateau
On the images broadcast by the channel, we can see Marine Le Pen’s bodyguard take her against him while she lowers her head to protect herself. She was quickly evacuated from the set on which Guadeloupe La Première was to interview her live.
The demonstrators, who chanted “out”, “racist” according to images from BFMTV, left the scene on their own, indicated the management of the hotel.
Among them was Laurence Maquiaba who explained that he wanted to “prevent” Marine Le Pen’s message from being “broadcast at high listening”. “The Guadeloupeans, despite the skilfully orchestrated welcome, do not want this person […] and a party that has not changed at all,” she added.
Marine Le Pen had arrived safely in Guadeloupe, where she was coming for the first time when her father had never been able to go there on campaign.
She had been welcomed by around forty supporters at Pointe-à-Pitre airport to the rhythms of ka (drum), while in December 1987, nearly 3,000 demonstrators had taken over the runway at Lamentin airport. , in Martinique, to protest against the “racism” of the National Front and the arrival of its then president Jean-Marie Le Pen, who had refused to disembark.
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