GREGROY OF FOURNAS. The deputy of the National Rally, elected in Gironde, stood out by launching a racist sentence in the middle of a session of the National Assembly. Who is Gregory of Fournas?
He is one of the 89 deputies of the National Rally who sit in the Assembly. Discreet most of the time, the elected official stood out on Thursday, November 3, 2022 during a session in the hemicycle, shouting: “Go back to Africa!” The remarks go badly first for their discriminating character but also because at first glance they seem addressed to another elected official, sitting on the benches of La France rebellious and with black skin, Carlos Martens Bilongo. This exit immediately denounced by the overwhelming majority of deputies present in the hemicycle is already making a lot of noise and the president of the LFI group in the lower house of Parliament, Mathilde Panot, has asked for the exclusion of the far-right elected official. .
Grégoire de Fournas was questioned by the journalists present at the Assembly, as were the representatives of the National Rally. The party’s explanation is that the words of the Girondin deputy were “in no way made speaking of the deputy” LFI but “speaking of the boat transporting migrants to Europe”, a subject which was indeed in question in the speech of Carlos Martens Bilongo. The far-right politician also supports this version and does not intend to recognize the racist nature of his remarks, nor the offense made to the member of the left. Grégoire de Fournas has moreover ensured with BFM-TV : “I will not apologize for something I did not do”, adding “they are trying to distort my words to make me say disgusting words”
Who is Gregory of Fournas?
Grégoire de Fournas is the MP for the 5th constituency of Gironde. Inserted in the National Rally, he has sat in the Assembly since his victory in the legislative elections of 2022, after a defeat in the 2017 polls and has been elected municipal since 2020. Before that, the 37-year-old man sat on the departmental council of Gironde between 2015 and 2021. Member of the RN since 2011, the politician and winegrower by training has already distinguished himself during previous slippages, due to his radical positions “in particular against the reception of young unaccompanied minors” according to Rue89. The politician would also be close to “the most racist and anti-Semitic fringes” of the far right according to the media.