It is not his responsibility. Marine Le Pen denies any link with the degradation of a controversial painting at the Palais de Tokyo by a former elected member of the National Front, attributing this gesture to “individual behavior”. “You cannot be held responsible for an individual act of someone who was a municipal councilor eight years ago”, said on Sud Radio the boss of the 88 deputies of the National Rally (RN) in the National Assembly. , ensuring that the author of the degradation is no longer a member of the party.
The world revealed that it was Pierre Chassin, former leader of the National Front group on the municipal council of Mureaux (Yvelines), an octogenarian who projected paint on the work “Fuck abstraction! by Swiss artist Miriam Cahn, accused of child pornography by her detractors. “He was wrong to do so,” she added, attacking the Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul Malak, who denounced Sunday “the instrumentalization” of this affair by the National Rally.
No link either with the manifestation of ultra-right
“With comments like that, she does not deserve to be Minister of the French,” said Marine Le Pen, who also denied being “close” to two people who participated in a demonstration by activists on Saturday. ultra-right in Paris and who have been identified by Mediapart.
“All the people who at one time or another (…) in the 50 years of existence of the National Front have had a responsibility as accountants or even elected officials are not part of my relatives”, she assured . The National Front (FN) became the National Rally (RN) in 2018.
On this demonstration, which was not banned and which aroused strong criticism on the left, she recalled that it is forbidden to parade masked: “These provocations cannot be tolerated. This is unacceptable,” she said.