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The Porge Compared to Oradour-Sur-Glane: the Polemics of Olivier Faure, Candidate for the Left-Wing Primary

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VIDEO - On a visit to the Porge, a Girond village ravaged by a violent fire this summer, the First Secretary of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure aroused a heated controversy by comparing the material destructions to the martyr village of Oradour-sur-Glane.

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The first secretary of the PS "resents" for comparing the two cities, one devastated by the fires of this summer, the other marked by a massacre of its population in 1944.

·Paris, France
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The first secretary of the Socialist Party dared to compare Friday on ICI Gironde, the day after his visit to Porge (Gironde), where 183 houses were destroyed during a fire this summer.

The Socialist Party's first secretary had compared the village of Le Porge, ravaged by fires this summer, to the Nazi massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane on Friday. Faced with the controversy, Olivier Faure acknowledged on Monday on BFMTV/RMC that he had made "a clumsy remark," while maintaining that he had never intended to compare the two situations.

Olivier Faure, the first secretary of the Socialist Party, recognized Monday, September 7th on BFMTV-RMC a "bad address" after comparing the fires at Porge in Oradour-sur-Glane. His comments had aroused lively...

On Monday, the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, regretted his comparison between the Porge fire, which destroyed 187 homes this summer, and the massacre committed by the Nazis in Oradour-sur-Glane in 1944. A clumsiness that triggered a controversy. The first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, regretted on Monday his comparison made on Friday on ICI Gironde between the fire in Porge (Gironde) which ravaged 183 …

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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VIDEO - On a visit to the Porge, a Girond village ravaged by a violent fire this summer, the First Secretary of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure aroused a heated controversy by comparing the material destructions to the martyr village of Oradour-sur-Glane.

·France
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