The individual made a scene because he could not get a phone refund since he could not present the proof of purchase suggesting that the phone may have been stolen.
And Isabelle Surply intervened by questioning the motives of the loud suspect. “Impossible to keep quiet: standing up to these ruffians is essential, if France does not suit them, all they have to do is leave!” she said on Facebook.
The former candidate for the municipal elections in Lyon confronted the man, who some netizens thought was drunk. That did not prevent him from being aggressive towards Isabelle Surply, especially in the parking lot of the supermarket. “Do you know what they are doing in Algeria to women like you?!” he screamed off-camera, threatening the member of the National Rally.
“Anyway you break my balls because I’m Algerian, that’s why you do not want to pay me back. Go ahead, I’ll fuck you all the French and France, a country of white shit,” he told the shop assistants.
Surply then tells him that he does not have to insult anyone working in the phone shop. He replies: “You have colonised Algeria, shut your mouth. I’m not talking to you…”
The man continues: “I piss on my identity card and I’ll tear it up it if I want.” He adds: “Bitch, go vote Marine Le Pen,” which made Isabelle Surply burst out laughing. “I’m going to embarrass myself, look!” she responds, laughing out loud.
Visibly exhausted, Isabelle Surply then demands that the individual show respect: “I’m elected, you do not talk to me like that.” She even instructs him to repeat after her: “I respect France and the country that feeds me.” But the Algerian refuses to do, preferring to mock her with an insincere apology.
On social networks, Isabelle Surply is currently trending with conservative supporters rallying behind her.
Il y a 2h, moi devant une scène de #vivrensemble :
-"J'nique tous les Fr. et la France /sale pays de blancs/en Algérie les femmes comme toi (moi, hein)"
⚠️Impossible de me taire : TENIR TETE à ces racailles est ESSENTIEL, si la 🇨🇵 ne leur convient pas ils n'ont qu'à PARTIR ! ✈️ pic.twitter.com/qHRkHXiY2w— Isabelle SURPLY (@IsabelleSurply) August 24, 2019
Surply also took the opportunity to say on social media that citizens should resist because such individuals lack courage and soon retreat if confronted. In all public places where these men try to impose their rudeness, their lack of education, their frustrated desires to obtain satisfaction on the spot and impose their outdated world view, French citizens should demand that laws be enforced, she said.
“We will regain our own esteem (if we have lost it) and enforce respect, which is the bare minimum,” she added.
Surply was one of the leading figures of the Manif pour tous in the region. The movement is against marriage and adoption for same sex couples.
Since the enactment of a gender law in May 2013 in France, the collective’s claims have expanded defending the “traditional family” and rejecting the teaching of “gender theory”.