He definitely right, I always sided against Apathie because he was always pro-Macron and such but on many case recently, I'm siding with him. I can't understand why his comments are "controversials", everyone in France know that during the colonisation and decolonisation, our military has done a ton of hateful things, from Indochina to West Africa and Maghreb.
Apathie is too center-sided for me, but when everyone goes to the far-right bootlicking, he stands his ground, so I cannot give him anything but uttermost respect.
Born in French Basque Country, had to learn Basque, it was horrible. Please don't.