“Unbearable”: Alice Darfeuille reframes Edwige Diaz of the RN who equates Trappes to an “Islamist city”

Tensions on BFMTV. Alice Darfeuille received several political guests on her show “BFM Grand Soir” this Monday, October 26. Among them, Edwige Diaz, president of the National Rally in the Senate, as well as Pierre Jouvet, secretary general of the Socialist Party. The opportunity for the journalist to make her interlocutors react to various current affairs subjects, and in particular the racist attack which occurred in Trappes last week.

“I would really like to send my thoughts to the victims of this tragedy. This drama was strongly condemned immediately after France found out, by Marine Le Pen, by Jordan Bardella via a tweet,” the senator began. “But I would also like to be outraged. The entire left has united to make an unworthy conflation of this racist drama and the National Rally, implying that we were at the origin of this atrocity. Frankly, I say it, it’s shameful of them.”

Unacceptable comments for Pierre Jouvet. “You are obviously not guilty but you are responsible. Because for hours, from Jordan Bardella to Sébastien Chenu via Marine Le Pen, you have made Trappes the symbol, in the words of Jordan Bardella, of an “Islamist city”. Your words have a responsibility,” he said. And the senator replied: “So what? It’s the truth.”

It was then impossible for the presenter not to intervene. “Do you continue to say that Trappes is an Islamist city?” she asked the person concerned. And the latter affirms: “In miniature, yes, absolutely. There is nothing reprehensible in our comments. You just have to go to Trappes to realize that women are not welcome in cafes…”.

As a lively debate arose between the two political guests, Alice Darfeuille took control of the show with difficulty by raising her voice. "Please ! Please look at me because the show is going to end and it’s very complicated to conclude on such a subject with such sentences!” she got annoyed. “Have you ever been to Trappes?” she then asked the senator. “No, I trust your colleagues who have reported on the subject,” replied his interlocutor.

The response did not seem to convince the journalist who spoke to close the debate: “I put myself in the place of the inhabitants of Trappes and when I hear that from an elected official who has never been to Trappes, it is unbearable. I have to say it.” “I think the best thing is for you to go and come back to this set to talk about it,” she added in conclusion.