Emmanuel Macron warns against "amalgamations" that could lead to "civil war"

The Elysee emphasizes that Emmanuel Macron absolutely wants to avoid "Stigma". It also indicates, on the side of the Elysee Palace, that some recent remarks coming from the opposition, like Xavier Bertrand's interview in the JDD, come under "moral fault". Xavier Bertrand evoked a "war of civilization" and Islamism which "gangrene the country". For Emmanuel Macron, "A yellow line was crossed by some opposition leaders".

The President today asks the Minister of the Interior to continue the dialogue with Islam in France, locally and nationally. It also asks the government to reaffirm what has been done on the issue of the fight against radicalization and communitarianism, which in its view represents "a form of separatism". According to Emmanuel Macron, this should lead to a particular vigilance for municipal officials on the expression of communitarianism, which can be likened to "social separatism".

Questioned by franceinfo, a close associate of the president explained that a speech by Emmanuel Macron on the issue of secularism is not excluded but is not on the agenda in the immediate future.

If Edouard Philippe tried Tuesday to close the debate, the controversy over the wearing of the veil continues to shake the ranks of the majority. Controversial revived by the attack on Friday, October 11, of a member of the National Assembly against a veiled mother who accompanied students from Belfort to the Regional Council of Burgundy-Franche-Comte, Dijon. In the National Assembly, the Prime Minister announced that he did not want "make a law on school counselors", pointing rather "the challenge" of the "community drifts" and some "Schooling."

The words of Jean-Michel Blanquer claiming that "the veil in itself is not desirable in our society" have in fact highlighted the divisions between two camps within the majority.

For his part, the President of the Senate, Gerard Larcher asked Emmanuel Macron to speak about secularism and the law of 1905. "The subject has not really been decided by politics, that's why I think we must go back to the fundamentals of the law of 1905 and that we are waiting on this subject the word of the President of the Republic, who has postponed many times, insisted Gerard Larcher on France 2. Si Emmanuel Macron had long promised a great speech on secularism, it was never finally pronounced.