FREDERICK FLORIN / AFP
A portrait of the boss of the RN broadcast Thursday evening in the program “Complément d’investigation” claims that the “RepNat du Gaito” profile, with dubious jokes and laudatory content about Jean-Marie Le Pen, would have been fueled by the one who did not was just a simple regional elected official.
Five months before the European elections, Jordan Bardella and his teams do not intend to miss anything. Not even the slightest grain of sand that could stop their electoral machine. This is why the president of the RN was quick to react to the revelations of the magazine “Further investigation“. A subject, broadcast Thursday evening on France 2, and portraying the MEP, claims that the 28-year-old young man would have maintained a Twitter account, anonymously, between 2015 and 2017, when he was only a simple regional advisor and department secretary of the FN in Seine-Saint-Denis. Unknown to the general public.
The profile, named “RepNat du Gaito», reveals publications vulgarly attacking political adversaries, making dubious jokes with racist connotations, or glorifying the person of Jean-Marie Le Pen. Very far from the “de-demonization” implemented over the years by Marine Le Pen, from the “notabilisation” strategy deployed by the 88 RN deputies in the National Assembly for a year and a half, but above all from the polite image and without a hitch that dismisses the nationalist leader.
“I am not going to take responsibility for comments that I did not say”
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Questioned during his greetings to the press on Monday, Jordan Bardella categorically denied these accusations. “You know my Twitter account (…) I’m sorry to disappoint you but I only have one Twitter account (…) I take responsibility for all my comments but I’m not going to take responsibility for comments that I don’t I didn’t hold on, had retorted Marine Le Pen’s successor at the head of the flame party. According to information from Parisian and theObsJordan Bardella’s camp directly calls into question that of Florian Philippot, former number two of the FN, one of whose former assistants would in reality be the real owner of the Twitter account in question.
In an extract broadcast on the social networks of the program this Wednesday, Éric Richermoz, former executive of the FN in the Somme who has since moved to the Patriots – the party of Florian Philippot -, affirms that “a lot of people and a lot of young people had a fake Twitter account to make jokes and to be able to speak more freely“. Among them, Jordan Bardella. Three other sources would confirm this information to the public service magazine.
Wednesday evening, the press advisor to Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella openly questioned the show on X: “You are broadcasting a false tweet, without even using the conditional and without specifying the denial of Jordan Bardella who formally denies being the author of these publications.» The latter also announced proceedings as well as the sending of a formal notice sent by bailiff, this Wednesday, to France Télévisions, to prevent the broadcast of the extract concerned. While the RN leader in the European elections reaches, in all opinion surveys, around 28% of voting intentions, placing him 10 points ahead of the majority list, will this televised portrait have an impact on these surveys? Response in the coming days.