The justice minister was angered by left-wing MPs, especially a communist law proposal that wanted to describe Israel's regime as "apartheid" vis-à-vis the Palestinians.
The statements were not transmitted to the left deputies. When asked about anti-Semitism on Tuesday, August 2, Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti defied the "far left" and pointed to a recent controversial motion on a resolution on Israel, which immediately sparked a fierce protest from coalition lawmakers who left Bicycle Nubians.
In a question to the government about the perpetrators of the 1982 Rue Rosé attack, Republican-linked MP Mayer Habib angered France's "Islamist leftists" Incomes.
Thus, he denounced the "dirty decision of 37 representatives of the Nubians," explaining, according to him, "the hatred of Jews and Israel." At the initiative of the communist Jean-Paul Leacock, this proposal for a resolution was signed by about forty elected representatives of the left condemning the Israeli "apartheid regime" against the Palestinians.
In his response, before attacking the "far right," Eric Dupond Moretti addressed a "little word to the far left": saying "Corbyn, apartheid, the words you chose to comment on a president's speech, those words stick with you." His arrest led to the departure of the elected leftists.
Upon their return, the leader of the socialist group Boris Vallo considered this exit "unwelcome": "The country does not need to be divided on this subject." Environmentalist Sandrine Rousseau considered it "unbefitting to qualify the LFI's MPs as anti-Semitic". Rebel Emeric Caron asked the prime minister for an "apology".