Raphaël Glucksmann wants to be teasing. At the end of the congress of his party this Sunday, March 16, the leader of public square addressed to the “Americans who have chosen to switch to the side of the tyrants” with a particular request: “Give us the statue of freedom”. Before adding: “We gave you it, but apparently you despise it. So she will be very good here with us ”.
This statue, which has become an American symbol, was produced by French Auguste Bartholdi and offered by the French people to Americans as a sign of friendship in commemoration of their alliance during the United States War of Independence. It was unveiled in October 1886 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence.
“We will be this firm land for lovers of freedom”
“We are tired of having a very small one”quipped the socialist MEP, in reference to the Parisian version at the Grenelle bridge. “We want the big one and we want the poem that has been written below:” This call to all the persecuted, to the free thinkers who promised them an open land, of welcome “, he continued. For Raphaël Glucksmann, “This land ceases to be what it had been”. On the other hand, “We will be this firm land for lovers of freedom”.
In addition, the head of the socialist list to the Europeans deplored the reflux of American aid in kyiv under the chairmanship of Donald Trump, who directly negotiates with Moscow an end of the conflict in Ukraine. He also attacked the funding of the new United States administration: “The second thing we are going to say to the Americans is:” If you want to turn your best researchers, if you want to fire all the people who, by their freedom and their sense of innovation, their taste for doubt and to seek it, have made your country the world’s leading power, well, we will welcome them “”.
In a flyer, which AFP had copied, Raphaël Glucksmann calls to build “A force that weighs, which acts, and which preserves our motto” freedom, equality, fraternity “” “faced with “The far right international” What do the American and Russian presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin for him as well as Marine Le Pen.
