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Rouen assault testimony fuels Naulleau's argument about left-wing violence

Pascal Praud's panel pairs victims' accounts with criticism of media coverage and claims that the attack targeted their identity.

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Éric Naulleau après l’agression à Rouen : "Le fascisme est passé de droite à gauche"

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0:00Praud introduces the Rouen assault and discusses the mayor's letter to the prosecutor.
2:33Alexis Prince's report presents Tanguy's account of the attack.
4:19Pierre-Alexis Michau describes the physical violence he and his friends endured.
5:44Naulleau interprets the assault as left-wing fascism and argues that anti-white racism and anti-Catholic hostility are denied.
8:33AGRIF president Yann Baly attributes moral responsibility to some politicians on the left.
9:29Tanguy describes a blow to his face and says he believes the group was targeted for its identity.

Tanguy describes being struck in the face. Pierre-Alexis Michau recounts the violence he and his friends endured and says he was subjected to racist abuse. Their accounts of an assault in Rouen, in northern France, form the center of a studio discussion that turns quickly toward political responsibility.

France's Europe 1 carries the excerpt from L'Heure des Pros, the CNews debate programme hosted by Pascal Praud. The broadcast identifies those attacked as young Catholics. Tanguy says he believes they were targeted not for anything they had done, but for who they were and what they represented.

Praud opens by discussing a letter that Rouen's Socialist mayor, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, sent to the prosecutor. A report by Alexis Prince then introduces the assault and Tanguy's testimony, followed by Michau's account.

Literary critic and columnist Éric Naulleau supplies the segment's central political argument. He characterizes the attack as evidence of left-wing fascism and argues that anti-white racism and hostility toward Catholics are being denied. That is Naulleau's interpretation of the assault, rather than a finding established by the victims' accounts presented here.

The discussion also challenges the response to the case. Olivier de Lagarde argues that politicians and journalists are more reluctant to address this kind of attack than other incidents. Yann Baly, president of AGRIF, an association campaigning against racism and attacks on Christian identity, attributes moral responsibility to some politicians on the left.

A further excerpt returns to Tanguy's account before Lara Tchekov and Vincent Hervouët broaden the discussion to ideology and violence. Praud closes by portraying his programme as one of the few willing to address the subject.

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