The far-right candidate for the Presidency of France Marine Le Pen she was insulted by “Guadeloupean independence supporters” during her campaign visit to the Guadeloupe archipelago, one of the French overseas provinces, located in the Caribbean Sea. Le Pen was approached at her hotel by some thirty activists in an act described as “totally unacceptable” by the French president, Emmanuel Macron. The candidate suspended her visit to Guadeloupe, reports the French newspaper ‘Le Monde’.
“Le Pen out!” activists chanted on the night of March 27 after interrupting the recording of a France Télévisions program at the Le Gosier hotel, on the outskirts of Pointe-à-Pitre. The escorts of the candidate wrapped the candidate and they evacuated her to her room while the whistles and insults in Creole continued. The break-in also prevented a live interview by Le Pen with the Guadeloupe public television channel La 1ère. “There were no real clashes or violence, but intimidations against Marine Le Pen“, explained to ‘Le Monde’ the chief editor of La 1ère, Alain Petit, present at the scene.
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“This land is full of slave blood”René Sainte-Rose, spokesman for Alyans Nasyonal Gwadloup (ANG), a far-left independence movement, recalled before the cameras. Sainte-Rose has accused “the ideological ancestors of Marine Le Pen, Eric Zemmour and (Nicolas) Dupont-Aignan” of establishing slavery in the French colonies. “Marine Le Pen is a symbol for us”, declared the activist, emphasizing that “ideas of the extreme right are not ideas, they are crimes”, and must be dealt with “like a cancer”.
Already on Sunday, French President Macron stated on France 3 that he was “shocked” by the “totally unacceptable scene” of the interruption of the recording of the transmission of Marine Le Pen. These events “shock me and I condemn them with the utmost firmness,” said Macron, who has condemned “any form of violence” in particular on the eve of the presidential elections. For his part, a spokesman for Le Pen, Julien Odoul, has criticized these “actions by far-left activists, the local ‘black blocs’, which rot everything, regardless of the territory of the Republic where they act, unfortunately”.
In November 2021 there were major demonstrations and protests against the French authorities in Guadeloupe, to the point that Paris was willing to address a possible negotiation of the political future of the archipelago.