Arras attack: Senator LR Stéphane Le Rudulier asks Emmanuel Macron to reactivate the crime of “national indignity”

Senator Stéphane Le Rudulier sent a letter to Emmanuel Macron on Friday, in which he asked the head of state to reactivate a 1944 ordinance which was abolished by an amnesty law of 1951. “I ask your government to support the reactivation of the crime of national indignity born in August 1944, by an order from General de Gaulle, against citizens, elected officials and political parties advocating terrorism", writes the parliamentarian, recalling that this order aimed to condemn French people “having collaborated under the Occupation”. He considers that this provision must apply today to “direct and indirect support of Islamist terrorism”. “This implies the return of the penalty of national degradation inflicted on people found guilty of national indignity depriving the condemned of their civic, civil and political rights”, specifies Stéphane Le Rudulier, referring to the withdrawal of the right to vote, ineligibility, the prohibition of employment in certain types of businesses and the possession of a weapon.

In this letter, the elected official congratulates Emmanuel Macron for having been “at the rendezvous of history” by providing unconditional support for Israel but he also considers that the “terrible knife attack” which struck the Gambetta high school 'Arras "is unfortunately part of the timetable of the call for a global jihadist offensive carried by Hamas." “Your call for unity and appeasement made last night was legitimate and responsible. It was unfortunately not enough to prevent the return of Islamic jihad on French soil,” underlines the right-wing senator, who also considers that this attack “feeds on the ignominy of parties, elected officials and parliamentarians of the New Anticapitalist Party and La France Insoumise who refused to qualify the Hamas attacks as terrorists.

If Stéphane Le Rudulier recalls the request for dissolution of the NPA and LFI that he sent this week to Elisabeth Borne, he believes that the president must go “further” temporarily. And, he adds: “As during the Second World War, French citizens, parties and elected officials are today the fifth column of an Islamist ideology which wants to destroy the Republic, our way of life and our values”.