Broadcast Thursday January 18, the show Further investigation on France 2 devoted to Jordan Bardella, the president of the National Rally, provoked the fury of the party which speaks of “ rough handling “.
You may remember the Mehdi Meklat affair, this young France Inter columnist, formerly of Bondy Blog, who caused a scandal in 2017 after a series of openly racist, anti-Semitic or homophobic tweets that he published under the pseudonym Marcelin Deschamps. He had accused the fascist sphere of being at the origin of his disgrace.
According to Further investigationat the same time, between 2015 and 2017, Jordan Bardella also published on Twitter, under the pseudonym RepNat du Gaito, racist, homophobic or insulting messages from journalists. On this account, a photo of the Créteil swimming pool is accompanied by the comment “ the black Sea » and the anti-Semite Alain Soral described as “ great sociologist » and paraphrased in these terms “ a journalist is either unemployed or a whore “.
Even more serious, in the middle of the trial today on police violence against Théo Luhakaa drawing represented the victim a week after the tragedy, with a baton thrust into the anus and the diverted slogan “ I am Theo “.
Revelations that Jordan Bardella denies
Jordan Bardella denies being the author of these tweets. He claims he only has one Twitter account. He also put France Télévisions on notice and announced legal action. However, Tristan Waleckx, the presenter of the show whom we contacted on Friday January 19, is categorical: “ We are 100% sure of ourselves “, he said. “ We have testimonies, but also material elements “. Pierre-Stéphane Fort’s report mentions three anonymous sources. Release invokes two others who confirm the journalist’s version.
One detail is quite revealing: this account under the nickname RepNat du Gaito, according to Releasehad only 54 subscribers, including Marine Le Pen who discreetly unsubscribed in the middle of the week when the show published its first images on social networks.
A tarnished image of the standardization of the RN?
Can this harm the image of the one who will also be the RN candidate for the European elections ? What is certain is that it breaks with its normalization strategy, especially since the report clearly explains that this smooth and smooth young man was chosen by Florian Philippot, the former vice-president of the party and shaped by ex-journalist Pascal Humeau to provide the story of a man without a problem from Saint-Denis.
However, we discover him close to Jean-Marie Le Pen whom he did not consider anti-Semitic on a TV set and European parliamentary assistant, while being in the organization chart of the RN, which makes him closer to the affair. Suspicions of fictitious employment with European funds which earned Marine Le Pen an indictment.
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