Attack in Yvelines: Édouard Philippe will attend the tribute at La Verrière, but not at that in Trappes

Former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe will go to La Verrière on Friday October 30 for the tribute which will be paid to an 11-year-old girl, seriously injured during the murderous attack by Kevin T. a week ago in Yvelines, his entourage announced.

On the other hand, the Horizons party presidential candidate will not be present in Trappes where the main rally will take place at the end of the day to pay tribute to the victims of the racist attack which caused the death of a 26-year-old man, Pengo Bossio Wangi, and injured seven people. “In tribute to the victims of the attack of October 23, Édouard Philippe will be present at the gathering organized in La Verrière (city of mayor LR Nicolas Dainville) at 4 p.m. today (Friday), in front of the Town Hall,” said his entourage.

A few hours earlier, the environmentalist senator Yannick Jadot, support of Raphaël Glucksmann for the presidential election, had strongly attacked the right and the central bloc for their absence at the tribute rally in Trappes (city of mayor Générations Ali Rabeh). “It should be the coming together of the Nation,” he said on franceinfo, regretting that “the right which claims to be republican will not make the trip”. “I think of Édouard Philippe, I think of Gabriel Attal, they are candidates for the presidential election, I think of a certain number of ministers,” he added.

He accused the right and the center of having “an extremely degraded relationship to the fight for the Republic, to the fight against racism”. The main left-wing candidates in the presidential election, including the social democrat Raphaël Glucksmann, the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the ecologist Marine Tondelier, have planned to participate in this gathering in Trappes.