A speaker would have opened the great conference of world -class extremes with a Nazi salute. Invited to the event, Jordan Bardella made the immediate decision to cancel his intervention.
After Elon Musk, the reactionary ideologist Steve Bannon is in turn accused of having made a Nazi salute. The former advisor to Donald Trump was closed Thursday, February 20, the first day of opening of the Political Action Conference Conservative (CPAC), the annual meeting of far-right political forces around the world. At the end of his speech, the populist suddenly stretched his right arm, palm down and tight fingers to push the assistance “in combat”.
“We will not retreat, we will not give up,” he burst, smile on his lips, before chanting the famous “Fight, Fight, Fight” claimed by Donald Trump after his assassination attempt. To finish his speech, Steve Bannon tuned ostensibly the arm under the applause and the cries of the public. This gesture recalls that of Elon Musk on the day of the inauguration of Donald Trump, a month earlier, on January 20.
Bardella withdraws
The annual conference of the Conservatives brings together, in Washington, several figures of the most conservative right and the far right in the world. As such, Jordan Bardella was present and had to intervene “on the links between the United States and France as well as on the recent electoral dynamics of the Patriotic Parties in Europe,” he said in a statement.
But this speaking did not take place. “To this platform yesterday, when I was not present in the room, one of the speakers allowed itself, by provocation, a gesture referring to the Nazi ideology”, indicates the president of the national rally. In response, he added that he had made “the immediate decision to cancel (his) intervention scheduled for this afternoon during the event”. His entourage then specified to AFP that the MEP was aimed well by Steve Bannon, who was the guest of a Congress of the National Front – since become a national rally – in 2018 in Lille.