Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday March 11 that France was to fight ” at the same time “ against “Geopolitical threats” and against “Threats to its soil projected by terrorists”rejecting the accusations of certain opponents who accuse him of exaggerating the threat represented by Russia.
“I heard, in the debates in recent days, people who, in a way, called into question the geopolitical threat. The President of the Republic would invent the Russian threat “said the head of state when launching the future headquarters of the Directorate General for Internal Security in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis). “These people did not follow the news, obviously”he tackled.
While Emmanuel Macron has, in his own words, “Sunned the tocsin” in recent weeks as to the “Russian threat”who according to him “Touch us” Already, the head of the national rally, Marine Le Pen, estimated, in a daily interview Le Figaro,, Friday March 7, that “The first threats to France” was not Moscow but “Islamist fundamentalism”. “If, after three years, Russia is struggling to move forward in Ukraine, there is little chance that it aims to come to Paris”she said.
“Defending the unwavering values of the Republic”
The President of the Republic quipped on Tuesday Marine Le Pen, on those who say that “The real threat is terrorism”or have “Other obsessions”. “We have not waited to fight against the terrorist threat”he hammered, after having defended his record for a long time.
According to him, “A big nation, she does not have to choose, she has to answer”. “And she does not have to decide to fight against the geopolitical threats which are imposed on her or against threats to her soil projected by the terrorists. She has to do both at the same time. This is what we do “he insisted.
“At a time when the balance of the world is reconfigured, where what we thought acquired is moving away, and where what seemed excluded comes closer, we must indeed defend these unwavering values of our Republic”continued Emmanuel Macron. “Because we don’t want to undergo. We want to choose the fate that is ours ”he pleaded, invoking a ” right “ has “Quiet life”.
Earlier in the day, the head of state went to Strasbourg for a tribute ceremony to the victims of terrorism, a few weeks after the knife attack on February 22 in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin). “Behind bombs, bullets and tears, each time hatred, hatred of our culture, knowledge, our model of democracy. But they did not understand one thing, it is that the more they hate us, the more they grow up. The more they increase our courage tenfold ”said Emmanuel Macron.