On the move to Guadeloupe, the presidential candidate cited the 2022 football world cup in Qatar as the example of a form of modern slavery.
Le Monde with AFP
At a memorial sequence, Jean-Luc Mélenchon paid tribute to the resilience and willingness to “release” slaves and warned of the “permanence of the slave will”, Thursday, December 16 at Petit-Canal, at Guadeloupe.
The candidate for the presidential election of 2022 set up the “marches of slaves” of this former port of the slave trafficking, which were borrowed by the masters slave to sell them to the market. After lodging a sheaf before the monument of the abolition of slavery, he delivered a speech about fifteen minutes, where he said, in particular, that in “the world in which we lived”, slavery is Also relevant: “Slavery is not a reality of the past, there are slave people in a number of countries, slavery forms that do not bear that name but who are there.” / P>
This displacement of the leader of France unsuitable occurs in the aftermath of a meeting held in the Gosier, and a meeting with caregivers on strike to protest against the immunization obligation in Pointe-à-Pitre.
“There are slavery forms that do not wear this name”
During his tribute speech, Mr. Mélenchon said he climbed “marches filled with strange vibrations that the past of the sufferings resonates in a contemporary heart”. “If the sufferings and humiliations can not in any way of course be forgotten (…), the main lesson is that of liberation,” he continued.
“The slaves did not resign themselves to their situation, contrary to what a paternizing legend wants to make believe,” continued the member of Bouches-du-Rhône. In addition to the acquis of the French Revolution, the latter stressed that the slaves themselves have “defeated the slavery by creolization, have invented a language – the Creole – and a music that gathered them and who were prohibited at Understand for masters “.
m. Mélenchon affirmed that slavery remains in our contemporary world but in other forms. “Curses are the masters and their successors who find normal that we brutalize, humiliates and lowers other people to accomplish I do not know what economic performance,” he said before adding that this is the case In particular migrant workers working on the construction of the works of the football world cup in Qatar, which will be held at the end of the year 2022:
“There are slavery forms that do not bear this name but yet are. (…) Workers are for example from one country to another, to whom their papers are confiscated, to whom We pay miserable pays that just allow them to survive, as we have seen with these thousands of trailed to prepare the football world cup. “
Also questioned about “repentance”, a word used by some, especially on the right, to reprove the critical examination of the past of France, Jean-Luc Mélenchon said not to be for repentance but stressed that this movement was intended to erase “the role of the dominant”: “I do not feel co-responsible of a crime that I would have fought at the time.”