Sébastien Lecornu, the Prime Minister, Laurent Nuñez, the Minister of the Interior, Aurore Bergé, the Minister for Combating Discrimination, and former Justice Minister Christiane Taubira all sent messages of support to Bally Bagayoko, the new Mayor of Saint-Denis from the Insoumis party. Since his election, he has received numerous messages of support on his phone, as well as a wave of racist attacks. However, Emmanuel Macron, the President of France, who is known to send late-night messages on Telegram, has remained silent.
This Tuesday, April 14, the two men will meet for the first time during the President’s visit to the girls’ school of the Legion of Honor. This will be an opportunity for the head of state to express a few words to him. In his office overlooking the basilica of the kings of France, Bally Bagayoko questions this silence. “Naturally, it raises questions,” says the new mayor of Saint-Denis. “In this sequence, it would have been interesting for the President to recall a number of facts that make sense for the Republic. The silence feeds into a discourse of delegitimization of elected representatives of the Republic.”
