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French Assembly Halts Session After RN Deputy Invokes Rwanda Genocide

The vice president referred the incident to the Assembly president for potential review by the bureau.

Overview

  • RN deputy Frédéric-Pierre Vos referenced Tutsis and Hutus during a debate on inheritance rules, drawing a controversial analogy to the 1994 genocide.
  • The session was suspended as deputies from multiple groups denounced the remark, calling it shameful and intolerable.
  • Deputies, including Hervé Berville, stressed that the comment inverted victim and perpetrator, noting that Tutsis were massacred in 1994.
  • PS group leader Boris Vallaud requested the bureau be seized to consider disciplinary action, and vice president Marie-Agnès Poussier-Winsback said she would alert President Yaël Braun-Pivet.
  • RN deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy apologized on behalf of his group and said they honor the memory of the genocide’s victims.