The barbaric murder of Iryna Zarutska on August 22 in Charlotte (North Carolina) is causing a stir across the Atlantic. While in the United States, the conservative camp castigates the silence of the national media on this tragedy and the judicial laxity defended by Democratsmany figures policies Conservatives are taking up the matter in Europe.
In France, the boss of Reconquête, Éric Zemmour, deplores the conditions which allowed a repeat offender to commit murder on a tram. “I don’t want this future for our daughters”he asserts on X, relaying an image of the terrified victim facing his tormentor.
“The atrocious crime of Iryna Zarutska shakes America (and) resonates as a cry against hyperviolence and judicial impotenceadds Eric Ciotti. “In France too, with Lola, Philippine and so many others, we know”adds on X the leader of the UDR partyin references to young French victims who lost their lives after crossing paths with foreign criminals.
MEP and president of Identity-Libertés (IDL) Marion Maréchal wonders, for her part, about “why does the despicable racist murder of Iryna in the USA not arouse the same media outrage as that of George Floyd? ».
Salvini and Weidel behind Trump
The same anger animates Matteo Salvini, vice-president of the Italian Council of Ministers and boss of the Lega. “President Trump was right to crack down on crime in big cities. The safety of citizens must always be the priority”he declares on “horrifying images” of the murder of Iryna Zarutska, broadcast on social networks.
Across the Rhine, the president of the nationalist AfD party, Alice Weidel, also welcomes the intransigence of the American president, who personally took up the matter. “This is exactly how we should respond to criminals”, she judges, “like Donald Trump does. This is exactly what we, the AfD, will do to free our beautiful country from criminal migrants. » As a reminder, the American president called for the death penalty for “the animal” having killed the 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee – a homeless man convicted on multiple occasions, who notably spent eight years in prison for armed robbery.
Rupert Lowe, figure of the British right and former MEP of the Brexit Party (renamed Reform UK in 2019), is sounding the alarm: “We must make the West safe again for millions of young women like Iryna Zarutska ». A message reminiscent of JD Vance’s speech, addressed on February 14 to Europeans, from the Bavarian capital. On this occasion, Donald Trump’s vice-president delivered an uncompromising vision of the major challenges facing the West. A historic speech calling on European leaders to take action in the face of massive immigration and the security aspirations of the people of the Old Continent.
