Pinned by a union of commissioners and several elected RNs on social networks this Sunday, November 27, Fnac removed from its website an “antifa” board game offering players to animate a fictional anti-fascist group.
Antifa, the game, is no longer for sale on the Fnac website. Available since November 10, this board game, created by the anti-fascist site “La Horde”, was removed from the website of the cultural products brand following a lively controversy on social networks.
This Sunday, November 27, the Union of Commissioners of the National Police (SCPN) and several elected officials of the National Rally pinned Fnac and alerted to the content of this game. Faced with the controversy, the company announced on Twitter “do the necessary” for the product to be no longer available.
We understand that the marketing of this “game” may have offended some of our audiences. We are doing what is necessary so that it will no longer be available in the next few hours.
— Fnac (@Fnac) November 27, 2022
“This ‘game’ is on sale at Fnac. A comment to highlight the antifas, which break, set fire to and attack in the demonstrations?” denounced the SCPN. “We understand that the marketing of this ‘game’ may have offended some of our audiences. We are doing what is necessary to ensure that it is no longer available in the coming hours,” the company’s official account replied.
Antifa, the gamewas “initially used as a training tool for more than two years”, but was “finally published in September 2021 by Libertalia editions”, can we read on the website of La Horde.
Box 2: “I beat up a right-wing activist”
Saturday November 26, several elected RNs, such as deputy Grégoire de Fournas or his college Victor Catteau, pinned Fnac and demanded the withdrawal of the board game. “Box 1: ‘I block a university’; Box 2: ‘I beat up a right-wing activist’; Box 3: ‘I attack an RN meeting’; Box 4: ‘I throw a Molotov cocktail at the CRS'” , tweeted this Friday the elected representative of Gironde, asking: “La Fnac, aren’t you ashamed?”
Box 1: “I block a university”
Box 2: “I beat up a right-wing activist”
Box 3: “I am attacking an RN meeting”
Box 4: “I am throwing a Molotov cocktail at the CRS”The @Fnac you have no shame ? pic.twitter.com/wlSY6eJFam
— Gregory of Fournas (@gdefournas) November 26, 2022
But how the @Fnac can it market such a “game”?
Honor the antifa, these hateful groups who only know violence to attack our democracy and what we hold dearest in our country…
Absolutely outrageous! pic.twitter.com/zPfT3ZcfMO
— \u2630 Victor Catteau (@VictorCatteau) November 26, 2022
On the other hand, the organization Action Antifasciste Paris-Banlieue criticized the censorship of the sign, recalling that the latter also offered, in the literature department, The Great Replacement by Renaud Camus.
As a reminder, this work theorizes the conspiratorial idea of the great replacement, according to which there would exist in France a process of substitution of the French population by a non-European population, originating from sub-Saharan Africa and the Maghreb.