Morsbronn-les-Bains. Controversy between the National Rally and the French Remembrance Movement: MP Thierry Sother (PS) calls for Benoît Sigrist to be reinstated in his duties

A week after a speech denouncing extremism and the "resurgence of brown and nauseating ideologies" during the commemoration of the battle of August 6, 1870 in Morsbronn-les-Bains, the French Souvenir committee of Woerth (Bas-Rhin) was "put on standby" by its departmental management .

The controversy, however, seems far from over: in fact, the president of the committee, Benoît Sigrist, remains the target of a complaint from the RN MP for Bas-Rhin , Théo Bernhardt (RN); on the other hand, Thierry Sother , PS MP for Bas-Rhin, and Michaël Weber, PS senator for Moselle, have just sent an open letter to the national president of the Souvenir français to defend this same Benoît Sigrist and "solemnly request" that he be "immediately reinstated in his functions."

"How can we commemorate, how can we remember, if we ignore all the causes and causes of the war?" the two parliamentarians argue. "Benoît Sigrist has only reminded us of this […]. Even as he denounces the resurgence of anti-Semitism that is currently exploding in France, the return of xenophobic and racist ideas, the rejection of others and withdrawal into oneself, you seem to give credence to the pressure exerted by Mr. Deputy Théo Bernhardt, who was never mentioned, neither he nor his party, in Benoit Sigrist's speech."

The national president of the Souvenir Français has not yet responded to this open letter.