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The president of the extreme right-wing party, Jordan Bardella, is at the heart of the controversy that broke out after the media 'Mediapart' published an article accusing him of having made anti-Semitic comments between 2013 and 2015. Bardella denied all the points and said it was a strategy to affect the party prior to the presidential elections.
Jordan Bardella denounced on Tuesday "the beginnings of a total war" against the RN after the publication of an investigation by Mediapart accusing him of having made anti-Semitic statements, a case that came to impact the campaign of the favorite polls in the presidential Marine Le Pen. The details of Olivier Guyottot, professor-researcher in strategy and political science.
French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on Tuesday vowed to hit back at allegations of antisemitism targeting her de-facto number two Jordan Bardella, which have punctured her buoyant campaign at a time she is riding high in the polls. Le Pen, who is aiming to win the Elysee at her fourth attempt next year in a far-right breakthrough that would send a shockwave across Europe, lambasted the Mediapart website that published the claims and said Bardella has her "total confidence".
National Rally President Jordan Bardella says he will sue for libel over comments he is accused of making as a young activist.
The president of the extreme right-wing party, Jordan Bardella, denounced on Tuesday, September 29, an "attempt to destabilize the presidential campaign" after Mediapart published an article accusing him of having made anti-Semitic comments between 2013 and 2015. Bardella announced he'll sue the middle.
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Jordan Bardella, a key ally of French far-right presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen, on Tuesday said allegations he made antisemitic comments in 2013 marked part of a "total war" against their party ahead of the 2027 polls. Bardella, a savvy user of social media who projects a clean-cut image, has been a key player in Le Pen's project of "de-demonisation" to make the National Rally into an electable force. FRANCE 24's French Politics Editor Marc Perelman tells us more.
French far-right leader Jordan Bardella said on Monday he had filed a defamation lawsuit against investigative website Mediapart over a report alleging he made antisemitic remarks in private messages over a decade ago, saying the story was an effort to "destabilise" campaigning ahead of next year's election. The 31-year-old leads the far-right National Rally party which is seeking to clear its racist image. The party's candidate, Marine Le Pen, is leading polls for the April presidential election. FRANCE 24's Antonia Kerrigan reports.
The investigative media #Mediapart published on Monday anti-Semitic statements attributed to Jordan #Bardella, also mentioning in his investigation his fascination for the ideologue Alain Soral. The president of the National Rally denied these revelations, denouncing a will to "kill" his "political career while at eight months of the #president, the #RN is at the head of the polls, and that Marine Le Pen promised to make him his Prime Minister if she wins the election.
On Tuesday, the president of the National Rally Jordan Bardella denounced "the beginnings of a total war" and "an attempt to destabilize the presidential campaign", after the publication of an article by Mediapart accusing him of having made anti-Semitic statements in 2013.
Marine Le Pen said Tuesday that the National Rally would not "be allowed" and intended to demonstrate "who is behind this manipulation", after the publication by Mediapart of anti-Semitic comments attributed to Jordan Bardella
The president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, and the party's presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen, launched their counter-attack in the wake of Mediapart's revelations of anti-Semitic statements made by the MEP more than ten years ago.
A French investigative website on Monday alleged that far-right National Rally leader Jordan Bardella made anti-Semitic comments in writing in 2013, but the close ally of presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen dismissed the claims as fake. According to the report by Mediapart, Bardella wrote, among other comments, in a chat: "The Jew has to dominate other peoples, crush them, and rob them; a Zionist is necessarily a Jew, and fundamentally so."
On the front page of the press, this Tuesday, September 29, reactions to Mediapart's revelations about anti-Semitic statements attributed to RN president Jordan Bardella. Yesterday, in Italy, three Egyptian officers were sentenced to ten years in prison for the murder of an Italian student ten years ago in Cairo. The happy end of the "Maricarmen" case in Spain. Football. And the despair of the organizers of Mister England.
Mediapart published on Monday anti-Semitic messages from 2013 attributed to Jordan Bardella, then a young National Front activist. The president of the RN announced a complaint of defamation and denounced an attempt to "stabilize" the RN campaign, leading in the polls, Marine Le Pen evoking "a barbuzerie".
In an investigation published on Monday, September 28, the research newspaper 'Mediapart' accused the French ultra-rightist Jordan Bardella of having made anti-Semitic comments in 2013, when he was a young activist of the National Front. The president of the extreme right-wing party National Group "formally" rejects these accusations and denounces "gross falsehoods." He announced that his lawyer "filed a defamation complaint."
A French investigative website on Monday alleged that far-right National Rally leader Jordan Bardella made antisemitic comments in writing in 2013, but the close ally of presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen dismissed the claims as fake. The allegations emerged as Le Pen's prospects for the 2027 elections appear stronger than at any point in her previous campaigns. FRANCE 24's Jennie Shin speaks with Dr Andrew Smith, Lecturer in History and Liberal Arts at Queen Mary University of London.
The newspaper 'Mediapart' has revealed writings from the president of the National Regrouping where he professed comments against the Jews and supported conspirationist theories
In an investigation published on Monday, the investigative newspaper Mediapart accuses Jordan Bardella of having made anti-Semitic statements in 2013, when he was a young National Front activist. The president of the RN "formally" contests these accusations and denounces "false rudeness". He announced that his lawyer "committed a defamation complaint".
Jordan Bardella, the head of Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN) party, has denied allegations made by French investigative website Mediapart that he wrote anti-Semitic comments on private chats in 2013, when he was aged 17 or 18. Bardella, seen as a likely prime minister if Le Pen wins next year's presidential election, said he would take legal action over the claims.
