Fierce political controversy has sparked France over last week’s riots, with the government camp accusing the Left – and primarily Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s Insubordinate France (LFI) party – of taking a stand by avoiding an appeal for calmness, in essence added fuel to the fire.

“There will be no return to calm if there is no justice,” LFI parliamentary representative Mathilde Panot told the French National Assembly, while addressing Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, she told her that “you want to blame us for the outrage when it has its roots in a heinous murder.”

“You are looking for culprits everywhere, in all democratic institutions, except for the perpetrators of violence,” the French prime minister replied, emphasizing that the “Insubordinates” chose the path of exaggeration, verbal brutality and evasion.”

Finally, regarding the far-right faction, Marine Le Pen accused the government of “creating areas of lawlessness in which some communities have allowed criminal activity”, turning the country into “hell”. “What have you done with France, you who have followed the same policy as your predecessors for forty years? “, he asked, calling on the government to “stop illegal immigration” and “take control of all areas of France”.

“Not siding with the unity of the country is not responsible,” Bourne replied to Le Pen, stressing the need “for national unity.”