Supporters of Donald Trump in front of Capitol Hill , in Washington on January 6 849. – Lenin Nolly / Sipa USA / SIPA
The chaos sown by the supporters of Donald Trump was quick to officially react to the French executive. The Foreign Minister on Wednesday condemned the protests and the intrusion of supporters of the tenant of the White House in the Capitol in Washington. For the head of diplomacy, “the violence against American institutions is a serious attack on democracy.”
“The will and vote of the American people must be respected” asked in two tweets, one in French and the other in English,
Jean-Yves Le Drian .
Violence against American institutions is a serious attack on democracy. I condemn them. The will and vote of the American people must be respected.
– Jean-Yves Le Drian (@JY_LeDrian) January 6, 2021
Events in the United States have also aroused many political reactions. The President of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand, thus sent his “democratic and friendly thoughts” to American parliamentarians on Capitol Hill.
“A coup”
Words have been much harder on the side of François Hollande . For the former president, “democracy has been the object of a coup. These scenes of chaos after the irresponsible words of the outgoing president are an offense to Democrats around the world. ”
Others used the same tone to qualify the protests at Washington. “This is what happens when we sow hatred,” tweeted MEP Stéphane Séjourné. In a second tweet, this close friend of Emmanuel Macron described as an “arsonist” Marine Le Pen who had said in November that she “absolutely did not recognize” the victory of Joe Biden. The RN mayor of Perpignan, Louis Aliot, a member of the party’s leadership, commented on a video of Trump asking protesters to return home. “Democracy is the ballot box. Violence has no place in the democratic debate, ”he tweeted. “It is the courts that punish fraud, not the street.”
“An attempted coup”
On the left, reactions were also numerous on tweeter. “Trump incendiary to the end. He entered the history of the United States not as successor of Lincoln but of Nero… ”, wrote the First Secretary of the PS Olivier Faure. For the national secretary of the Greens, Julien Bayou, “it is an attempted coup”, with “terrible images” of an “interrupted democratic process”. LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon sees “an attempted far-right putsch” and asks Marine Le Pen and the
RN “to withdraw their support for Trump”.
“Blood has flowed on the Capitol tonight. In the heart of the oldest of democracies. Consequence of populism and hate speech. Support for elected officials and the American people, ”for his part reacted the general delegate of En Marche Stanislas Guerini. UDI President Jean-Christophe Lagarde wrote in English that it was time for “this crazy Trump” to leave the presidency of the United States and “to take away the possibility of using the nuclear weapon “. The leader of deputies LR Damien Abad, for his part, judged “the behavior of Trump and part of his supporters (…) unworthy of American democracy”.