No Republican unity. For Olivier Salerno and Robert Injey, two figures of the extreme left in Nice, the statue promised by Éric Ciotti to communist resistance fighter Max Barel is a “Insult”.
“Max Barel doesn’t deserve it,” they bomb in a press release released Thursday May 14, 2026. The day before, the mayor (UDR) of Nice, whose party is allied to the National Rally, had responded favorably to the request of the opposition municipal representative Julien Picot, boss of the PCF06. The monument should soon be erected on the square which bears the name of the resistance fighter from Nice, near the port. The municipal council will soon deliberate on this matter.
“Regain political virginity”
The Insoumis and the member of the Communist Alternative movement believe that the gift made by Éric Ciotti to his opponent PCF is nothing other than political recovery. “The opportunity was too good for the zealous ally of the RN to regain his political virginity by recovering the memory of the communist resistance fighter tortured by Klaus Barbie in Lyon in 1944,” they put on paper.
And to remind: “Éric Ciotti made the political choice to ally himself with the National Rally, heir to the National Front, founded in 1972 notably by collaborators, former Waffen-SS of the Charlemagne division, Vichyists, worshipers of Pétain, and who pleaded until their death for the rehabilitation of Nazism. HAS”
“We do not trivialize such filiation”
“The idea that a statue in honor of Max Barel would be inaugurated by the political ally of the heirs of those who were complicit in his Nazi assassins is not only inappropriate. It is an insult to his memory. We do not trivialize such filiation with impunity.”still accuse Olivier Salerno and Robert Injey.
And to conclude, cruelly: “Let’s imagine the scene, in a few months, in the middle of the presidential campaign: Éric Ciotti, support of Bardella or Le Pen, inaugurating with great fanfare the statue of Max Barel alongside Julien Picot, representing the communists of the Alpes-Maritimes. Sadness…
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