There is controversy in France after 20 retired army generals signed an appeal published in the right-wing weekly Current values, released on April 21, in which they severely judge the action of the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron.
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In the text addressed to Macron, entitled “For a return of the honor of our rulers”, the retired generals urge the president to “defend patriotism” and the values of civilization against “Islamism and the hordes of the suburbs” and against the “disintegration” of France. And they fear the risk of a civil war: “It is no longer time to procrastinate, otherwise tomorrow the civil war will put an end to this growing chaos and the deaths, for which you will bear the responsibility, will number in the thousands”, reads the text.
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The Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, commenting today on France Info, defined it as a text that “shocks” and “irresponsible”. The point, France Info points out on its website, is that the military is prohibited from expressing religious and political views. The opinion of the leader of the French extreme right Marine Le Pen is different, who, again on the microphones of France Info, said that she shared the “affliction and the observation” of the military.
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