He appears alone, in the dark, his face filmed in close-up. On July 27, Juan Branco posted a long video on YouTube, in which he spoke a monologue of more than 17 minutes. Buried in the platform since, the images have just been exhumed by Paris Match .
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Evoking a multitude of jumbled topics, the lawyer attacks his best enemy in particular: Benjamin Griveaux. He first returned to the "fenwick attack" carried out by "yellow vests" against the ministry of the former government spokesperson, in January 2019, to " smash " the door.
If he was delighted, at the time, to have attended this " carnival act " by being " alongside the demonstrators ", the activist said he was the victim, this summer, of a supposed " concerted offensive "Aimed at" attributing "the attack on the Secretary of State, then occupied by the one he describes as" coward "and" coward ".
" It is not so much a question of defeating as of crushing it "
A few minutes later, at the bend of a speech on the municipal elections - during which “ Macronia is waiting for only one thing ” according to him, namely “to win everything ” - Juan Branco is pleased to have “ voluntarily allowed to leak the idea that a candidacy for the City of Paris could intervene ”.
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To hear it, if this hypothesis were to be realized, " the beloved Macronie child, a certain Benjamin Griveaux, could therefore fall ". " Because it would not be so much to overcome as to crush him by sending him back his arrogance and his contempt, his incompetence and his inanity ", he threatens at first.
Branco evokes neither Pavlenski nor Taddeo
Then his threats seem to be clarified: Juan Branco already imagines - and out loud - being at the origin of the political plunge of Benjamin Griveaux, " by forcing him into a confrontation which, beyond the little oligarchic games in which ready with such enthusiasm Anne Hidalgo, would force him to see him naked, in his ugliness ”.
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Although he never mentions Piotr Pavlenski nor Alexandra de Taddeo, the resemblance between the threats of Juan Branco and the events of mid-February is disturbing. The lawyer said, however, that he had not been contacted by the Russian activist until "mid-December" , and said that they would have met " shortly before ".