
The former prime minister and 2027 presidential candidate reacted to the attack on young Catholics in Rouen and to the Crépol affair.
Traveling to Zuydcoote, Édouard Philippe denounced a “tense France” and affirmed that “anti-White racism killed in Crépol”, in reference to the murder of Thomas Perotto in 2023, while calling for national unity and respect for republican values.
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The murder of Thomas Perotto in Crépol in November 2023 led the courts to retain the aggravating circumstance of racism against the white race.
Traveling to Zuydcoote (North), Wednesday November 4, the candidate of the “Horizons” party for the 2027 presidential election Édouard Philippe returned to the attack on young Catholics in Rouen on October 31. “Anti-White racism killed people in Crépol,” he said in particular.
The former prime minister spoke of a “tense and violent France”. “I am convinced that our fellow citizens want to rediscover national unity, the face of France of which they are proud, that is to say a France which knows how to integrate into its population people who come from incredibly varied backgrounds but a France which is implacable in respecting its values,” he said. “Racism, whatever it is, kills, anti-Semitism kills,” he continued. Questioned by a journalist about “anti-White racism”, Édouard Philippe then replied: “Anti-White racism killed people in Crépol”.
Last September, justice dismissed 11 accused for “murder” and “attempted murder”, finally retaining the aggravating circumstance of racism towards “the white race and the French nation”, after the death of young Thomas Perotto leaving the Crépol ball (Drôme) on November 19, 2023. Already, in 2023, Édouard Philippe had judged in an interview given to the Journal du Dimanche (JDD) that he was “very possible” that there is “a new form of anti-White racism” in France after the death of young Thomas.

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