The White House has rejected on Monday a request for a French Eurodiput on the return of the statue of freedom, stating that France would be “speaking German” if it were not for the help of the United States during World War II.
«My advice to that anonymous and low -level French politician would be to remind him that it is only thanks to the United States that the French do not speak German at this time, so they should be very grateful to our country,” said the spokeswoman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, during a press conference.
The Social Democratic Eurodiputee Raphael Glucksmann, critic with the administration of Donald Trump, said during the weekend that he would have to “tell the Americans who have opted to lean for the tyrants, the Americans who fire researchers to give signs of scientific freedom” to return the statue of freedom. “We give it to her but apparently despise her,” he said.
After Leavitt’s words, Glucksmann has stressed that American and French peoples “are intimately united by history, spilled blood and the passion for freedom”, which is “symbolized by the statue that France offered to the United States”. »I would simply be here if hundreds of thousands of young Americans would not have landed on our beaches in Normandy. Our gratitude to the heroes and their sacrifices is eternal, “he said.
However, he has detailed that the country “of these heroes fought against the tyrants, did not flat them.” «She was an enemy of fascism, not a friend of (Russian president, Vladimir) Putin. He helped resistance and did not attacked (to the Ukrainian president, Volodimir) Zelenski, “he said.
«This America, faithful to the wonderful words registered in the statue of freedom, its America, is worth much more than the betrayal of Ukraine and Europe, xenophobia or obscurantism. We all love this nation to which we know so much. It will resurface. You will resurface. We have you, ”he said.
However, he said that “precisely” because he “terrifies Trump’s betrayal” that in a rally they could “symbolically recover the statue of freedom if his government despises everything that symbolizes before his eyes, ours and those of the world.” «It was a attention call. No one, of course, will come to steal the statue of freedom. The statue is yours. But what it represents is everyone, ”he said.
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