After some retired generals and former officers warned of an imminent civil war in France, hundreds of French soldiers have signed a new petition and stressed their support for the views put forward by their military predecessors.
French newspaper Le Parisien reports that this time those involved in signing the pessimistic petition are active-duty French military personnel, but have chosen to remain anonymous to avoid reprisals from their superiors.
The new petition was published in a new column in the magazine “Valeurs Actuelles” on the 9th, as a “second round of fire” in support of a previous open letter published in the same media, according to the report.
Le Parisien reported that the magazine called on French citizens to sign the column online, and said that by the morning of the 10th, more than 150,000 Internet users had responded to the call by signing it since it was published on the evening of the 9th.
The column cries out to the French president, ministers, members of parliament and senior officials that “these are the people who are fighting against all the enemies of France” and that “today they are being treated like this, but they are not wrong, they are just patriotic and sad to see their country crumble before their eyes. grief. In such a situation, those of us who have just become soldiers are obligated to put ourselves in harm’s way for the honor of speaking the truth.”
The undersigned expressed support for the point made by the senior retired general in a previous column, “Our predecessors were right in the substance of the text and overall, because we saw the violence that exists in our cities and towns, we saw the sectarian tendencies rooted in the public square and in public debate, and we saw the overtones of hate that have come to dominate France and its history “.
Le Parisien commented that the disintegration of France was once again the dominant idea in the new column, “We have seen such regression in many countries experiencing crisis, and this is a precursor to the collapse of the state, which heralds chaos and violence, not as it is officially described. Because these chaos and violence do not come from the words of the military, but from the uprising of the population”.
According to the French newspaper Le Point, the column was signed by hundreds of people who said, “Yes, civil war is once again brewing in France, and you are fully aware of it.”
French Interior Minister Gérard Darmanin said in a press commentary to a French media outlet on the new letter of signatures, “In a democracy, everything is decided by the people,” and asked, “Is courage the courage to sign one’s name? A true warrior dares to publish his name”, he denounced the practice of taking such actions only a few months before the start of the first round of presidential elections.
At the end of the article, Le Parisien asks whether this new petition will generate the same momentum as the previous one? Will it make the same noise as the previous petition? Especially in light of the fact that the measures taken by the authorities after the first petition was sent also failed to stop the current signatories, from going back to do what they did.
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