Meeting de Mélenchon in Toulouse: the foiled provocation of the far right
Shortly before the Toulouse meeting of Jean-Luc Mélenchon on April 3, a banner ready to be unveiled was discovered fixed from the roof of the Capitol.
On Sunday April 3, when Jean-Luc Mélenchon gathered 20,000 people on the Place du Capitole for his last outdoor meeting of the presidential campaign, the incident came into view. And he has remained silent until now. The Toulouse far-right had, it seems, planned to provoke the leader of the Insoumis and his spectators by unrolling a banner fixed from the roof of the Capitol. But the script failed.
On Sunday morning, while the stage had been set up the day before with its giant screens on either side, with its back to the Capitol, the organizers of the meeting saw a banner rolled up on itself, hung on the facade, right side, from the railing, and a priori ready to be unfolded, no doubt during Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s speech. City employees went up to pick up this device the size of a sheet. On the banner, would have appeared, according to a source, a call to vote Mélenchon but accompanied by the drawing of an octopus. The unclear message was interpreted as a far-right provocation.
Scaffolding is currently installed on rue du Poids-de-l’Huile for the renovation of the south facade of the Capitole and one can imagine that the instigators of this “coup” climbed to the roof by this means.