Controversy after Olivier Faure's comments comparing Le Porge to Oradour-sur-Glane

An outing that doesn't work. After his visit on Thursday to Porge, the village of Gironde partly destroyed by the gigantic fire which ravaged 42,000 hectares in July, the first secretary of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure declared on Ici Gironde: “I don't know if we should dare this comparison, but it has an Oradour-sur-Glane side with these completely burned houses”.

Candidate in the primary of the presidential election of his party, he added: “No victims fortunately but we imagine the violence of the fire with the totally destroyed houses, these charred cars and then these kilometers of pines which are black, it is a kind of vision of horror. »

“The Porge is not a war crime committed by the SS”

The parallel with Oradour-sur-Glane (Haute-Vienne), a martyr village during the Second World War after the massacre committed by the Das Reich division of the Waffen-SS, which executed 643 civilians on June 10, 1944, is now controversial.

“No, Olivier Faure, Porge is not Oradour-sur-Glane and your comparison is an insult to the memory of this martyred village,” said Marc Fesneau, MP for Loir-et-Cher, president of the Modem group in the Assembly and former Minister of Agriculture, on the social network “The Porge is a gigantic fire in the heart of an extreme summer. There are houses destroyed and families who have lost everything. It’s a terrible ordeal, but it’s not a war crime committed by the SS.”

Also recalling that there has been “not a single death among the inhabitants of Porge”, he believes that “the minimum would be an apology” and tells Olivier Faure “to go see or see Oradour-sur-Glane again. »