"It's too easy": Guedj not convinced by Tondelier's apologies after the May Day parade

The call went unanswered. Socialist MP Jérôme Guedj said on RTL on Monday, May 12, that he had refused to speak with the national secretary of the Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, whose reaction he had pointed out after being heckled and removed from the Parisian rally on May 1 .

While expressing her support for Jérôme Guedj - who had already been attacked during the rally against Islamophobia on Sunday, April 27 - Marine Tondelier seemed to question his behavior, declaring: "I also see how (he) makes appointments, comes with twenty journalists."

Criticized by several socialists after this statement, the leader of the Green Party finally offered her "apologies" on Friday, May 2. Regarding Jérôme Guedj - who had protested against a "moral error" - the latter specified: "I tried to call him this morning and I will do it again in the morning."

"She tried to contact me before issuing her apology," confirmed Jérôme Guedj on RTL. "I didn't want to. I find it too easy to apologize after saying horrible things."

The Essonne MP accuses Marine Tondelier of "inventing fake news." "Two hours before this demonstration, I didn't know I was going. So I didn't call any journalists," he explained on Monday.

More generally, Jérôme Guedj believes that the behavior of the leader of the Ecologists contributes to a certain "relativization." "It's always 'yes, but,'" he lamented. Before comparing this situation to certain justifications that can be heard in the face of rapes suffered by women: "It made me think of 'her skirt was too short, she was asking for it.'"

And Jérôme Guedj concludes: "To tell me, in a certain way, 'he was asking for it' is to legitimize those who are brutalizing the debate."

On May 1st, protesters dressed in black, some carrying anti-fascist flags, violently jostled Socialist Party (PS) elected officials and activists. Several party officials reported anti-Semitic insults directed at Jérôme Guedj, who is Jewish.

A few days earlier, during the rally against Islamophobia, on the sidelines of the death of Aboubakar Cissé, assassinated in a mosque in Gard, the MP had been subjected to invective with anti-Semitic overtones.

In response to these events, the individual took to BFMTV to criticize the "arsonist firefighters" who, according to him, are fueling these actions. In his sights: La France Insoumise, with which a breaking point has been reached since the Hamas attacks in Israel on October 7, 2023.