“Spiritual heirs of Marshal Pétain”: the shocking response of MP Allegret-Pilot to the descendants of Lucie-Aubrac

The MP for the 5th constituency of Gard will be present this Saturday in Le Vigan for his New Year's wishes. Midi Libre – PAUL BARRAUD

The New Year's wishes of the MP for the 5th constituency of Gard are to be held this Saturday, February 1, from 7 p.m. at the Le Cantou hall in Le Vigan, against a backdrop of controversy.

“We learned with dismay that your municipality had accepted the reservation of a room in the Lucie-Aubrac space, our mother and grandmother, so that the deputy of your constituency who joined the RN/FN could present his wishes there.” Since this letter sent by the descendants of the resistance fighters Lucie and Raymond Aubrac, the tension has not subsided within the commune of Vigan.

A deputy “with the right to hold a meeting”

The cause is therefore the organisation in this town of 7,000 inhabitants in the west of Gard of the wishes of the deputy Alexandre Allegret-Pilot, member of the Union of the Right for the Republic (UDR), the far-right party of the former president of the Republicans Eric Ciotti. Admitting to being under pressure, the mayor of Le Vigan, Sylvie Arnal, made a clarification on Thursday, January 30: “For several days, I have been the target of criticism for having granted the Lucie Aubrac town hall to Mr. Alexandre Allegret-Pilot, MP for the 5th constituency of Gard for his ceremony of wishes to the population. Even if I do not share Mr. Allegret-Pilot's ideas, as a democratically elected MP of the Republic, he has the right to hold a meeting anywhere in his constituency to meet with the citizens,” thus recalled the elected official, estimating moreover that“It is not by obstructing the expression of his ideas on our territory that he would be acting in resistance; on the contrary, that would amount to showing contempt for our institutions and a portion of our fellow citizens”.

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A change of room that made the MP rebel

On Tuesday, during a meeting on a related subject with the sub-prefect of Vigan, Sylvie Arnal addressed this delicate situation, announcing that she had opted for a change of room, out of “fear of reprisals”, all sides combined, and “in order to guarantee security and public order”. Also warning the gendarmerie of potential risks.

But the relocation of his wishes to the Cantou community hall has since made the Ciottiste MP fume. A fan of shock phrases, he, outrageous, does not hesitate to describe the descendants of Lucie Aubrac, including on the X network, as “spiritual heirs of Marshal Pétain”. Asserting that these remarks are contrary to “the intellectual and adept of debate that Lucie Aubrac was”. “I will not give in to the pressure of clowns who adopt behavior that they claim to denounce by preventing me from working”, proclaims, without moderation, the extreme right MP. Who assures that he will respect “the law”, but will not deprive himself of coming to Vigan: “I will be there whether people like it or not.”