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Assassination of Charlie Kirk: the front page of Liberation accusing Trump raises an uproar

Release polemical after the publication of his last issue this weekend. While the United States is shaken by the assassination of American influencer Charlie Kirk in Utah on Wednesday, the left newspaper dedicated his front page “The era of political violence” By illustrating it by a photo of Donald Trump covered with a red filter. A way to come back to “The arrest of a man suspected of the assassination of the far -right activist Charlie Kirk” and on the way “Donald Trump was unleashed against the left and horrible left ‘.”

This choice of one and the chosen angle made jump, starting with Alexandre Devecchio. “Even when it is a Trumpist who is killed by an extreme left activist, it is Donald Trump’s fault, it is he who preaches violence”denounced the journalist of Figaro On the CNews set this Saturday, September 13. He judges this reaction “Totally Orwelian and delusional”.

“Can we give them the accusation: does the rhetoric of the far left, and even of the left, does not have a responsibility in what happened? »» he wonders, recalling that Kamala Harris “Continued to treat Donald Trump as a fascist” Despite two assassination attempts. “Fascism and Nazism are absolute evil. Faced with this, everything is allowed and even that violence is perhaps the only solution. You can see an incentive to violence ”still analyzes the journalist.

Alexandre Devecchio also sees it as a “Resurgence” far left violence: “Without going back to the French Revolution or the millions of dead of communism, which Ian Brossat does not want to see, remember that in the years 1970-1980, the Red Brigades (in Italy), Red Army Fraction (FAR) in Germany, direct action in France practiced the targeted assassination. »» Today, this violence exists “In the form of wokism”that’s to say “The idea that we must erase the Western white male”. “From symbolic erasure to physical erasure, there is only one step that obviously part of the left is ready to cross”he accuses.

Many other reactions are visible online. “” Release Trump target after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Shame “criticizes a journalist from Sud Radio. “” According to ReleaseCharlie Kirk would be “extreme right”. And the problem would be Donald Trump, who would have “unleashed” against the left “nasty and horrible”. In addition to the blatant and shameful disinformation on Charlie’s real political positioning, I let you judge », Still points to a surfer. And another to denounce: “For those who think (still) that the left is mistaken in good faith. »»