Hanouka à l'Élysée : Macron nie atteinte à la laïcité.
Pendant que le grand rabbin de France Haïm Korsia a allumé, jeudi soir dans la salle des fêtes de l'Élysée, la première bougie du candélabre pour la fête juive de Hanouka, le président Emmanuel Macron a déclaré vendredi qu'il n'avait pas participé à un "acte religieux".
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00:00 While the Grand Rabbi of France Aïmé Corsia lit, Thursday night in the Hall of
00:03 the Feasts of the Elysée, the first candle of the Candelabra for the Jewish Feast of
00:07 Hanukkah, President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that he had not participated in a
00:12 religious pact.
00:13 The President of the CRIF, Jonathan Harfi, has moved away from this initiative,
00:18 calling it a mistake.
00:19 President Emmanuel Macron said, Friday, December 8, not to regret at all the celebration
00:25 at the Palace of the Elysée at the beginning of the Jewish Feast of Hanukkah, ensuring,
00:30 while the controversy was raging in the Hexagon, that it had been carried out "in a spirit
00:34 which is that of the Republic and of the Concord".
00:36 All this was done in the presence of all the other cults who were invited, who were there
00:41 and in a spirit which is that of the Republic and of the Concord, said Emmanuel Macron
00:45 during his trip to the construction site of Notre-Dame de Paris.
00:49 Two days before the anniversary date, on December 9, 1905, on the separation of the
00:54 Church and the State, the President created the controversy, including even in part of
00:59 the Jewish community, by leaving the Grand Rabbi of France Haim Korsia lit, in the Hall
01:03 of the Feasts of the Elysée, the first candle of the Candelabra for Hanukkah, the Feast of
01:09 Lights.
01:10 The President of the CRIF, Jonathan Harfi, took his distance with the initiative of the
01:14 Grand Rabbi, speaking of a mistake.
01:15 "It is not the place within the Elysée to light a candle of Hanukkah because the
01:19 republican DNA is to stay away from everything that is religious", he added.
01:24 "The Elysée is not a place of worship".
01:27 The event had not been announced by the Elysée but videos, widely viewed on
01:31 social networks, have ignited controversy, mainly on the left.
01:35 "The Elysée is not a place of worship.
01:38 We do not transige with secularism.
01:41 This common and precious but fragile ", denounced the socialist Carol Delga.
01:45 "The Elysée is neither a church, nor a mosque, nor a temple, nor a synagogue ",
01:51 said Guillaume Lacroix, president of the Radical Left Party.
01:55 "An unforgivable political mistake for the coordinator of the Insoumise France, " Manuel
02:00 Bonpart.
02:01 The President of the Republic assured that he had not committed a "cultural gesture"
02:05 and pleaded, in a context of rising anti-Semitism, to give confidence to
02:10 our compatriots of Jewish confession.
02:12 "Frankly, given the context, we must give them confidence.
02:16 In the same way, we have Muslim confession compatriots who feel
02:21 attacked.
02:22 We must give them confidence, "he said, calling for common sense and benevolence.
02:28 "Layism is not to erase religions or to be involved in religion, but to ask ourselves,
02:34 whatever the religion of each, that citizens absolutely respect the laws of the Republic,
02:39 and that's it, no more, no less ", he insisted.
02:42 Embarrassed by the controversy, the executive first defended himself through Elisabeth
02:47 Born who, since Mayotte, estimated that Emmanuel Macron had wanted to send a signal of support
02:52 to the Jewish community in the face of the rise of anti-Semitism.
02:55 For his part, the Minister of the Interior and the Gérald Darmanin cults saw no
03:00 nulla tinta la laicite. Ave KFP et Reuters.