Florian Philippot rarely quotes the Pope.
But this Saturday, January 23, the president of the Patriots harangued the 250 to 300 demonstrators gathered at the foot of the Ministry of Health: “Do not be afraid!
"The assembly replied:" Freedom, freedom!
"
While a third confinement is looming, the sovereignist brings together for the twelfth week his supporters against what he calls "coronafolie", to understand the measures taken by the government to fight against the Covid which would draw, according to him, a shift towards "dictatorship".
Curfew?
“It's house arrest, physical and mental torture,” he blurted into the microphone.
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If Marine Le Pen criticizes the management of the crisis by the executive, his former number 2, both anti-vaccine and anti-mask, has for several months taken much more anti-system accents which attack the very nature of these measures.
"A government prefers to manage a people under curfew than a people who could go into the street", slips to Parisian Florian Philippot who plows this radical furrow with conspiratorial tendencies through tweets and videos.
“We have an autogenous vaccine in us, it's called the immune system.
[…] Nobody talks to you about it, except the doctors who have no link of interest with the labs, ”he said, for example, on January 11 on the far-right webTV TV Libertés .
By the way, he does not forget to call on Internet users to take their Patriotes card, a "passport to freedom and resistance".
And to believe Florian Philippot, in great electoral difficulties since his split with the FN, it works.
Its number of activists would thus have increased from 2,000 to 14,000 in one year.
“We experienced a renaissance in 2020,” he says.
We created our own identity.
We had the image of a small RN, we have that of the defense of freedoms.
"" He wanted to be party president, he becomes a guru!
Prefers to laugh Marine Le Pen.
"All defenders of freedom and the fatherland are welcome"
Among the sympathizers crossed in front of the ministry, Alix
(the first name was changed),
a Parisian of 24 years.
This former FN has just joined the Patriots: “Philippot revealed himself with the crisis, like Didier Raoult!
"Beside, Baptiste, a royalist student who" vomits the lukewarm ", recognizes that he did not like Philippot until then, standard bearer of the demonization of the FN for several years.
"But there, it is good it is the only one who is invested in this fight ..."
Not quite.
The previous week, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan took part in the demonstration.
On January 9, the former conservative candidate for the right-wing primary, Jean-Frédéric Poisson, who calls for “civil disobedience”, sent a representative.
Also seen that day were Alexandre Simonnot, an intimate of Jean-Marie Le Pen, who came to represent the radical Party of France as well as the nationalist-revolutionary Vincent Vauclin.
Present today in Paris with the comrades of the @NatDem_fr Movement during the demonstration organized by @_LesPatriotes against #Coronafolie and #DictatureSanitaire.
Sacred union to reclaim our freedoms!
#StopDictatureSanitaire pic.twitter.com/7jHGeFoFKh
- Vincent Vauclin (@vincent_vauclin) January 9, 2021
"All defenders of freedom and the fatherland are welcome to express themselves here", proclaims Florian Philippot at the microphone, who had already posted with Marion Maréchal on December 2 during a Facebook live on the subject .
Since then, her ex-rival has chained media interventions to qualify the severity of the pandemic and express her doubts about the vaccine.
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Enough to form a “sanitarily incorrect” front?
The former sovereignist presidential candidate François Asselineau promises in any case common initiatives.
On January 2, he, Florian Philippot and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan have already written to Olivier Véran a letter in which they ask to make public the results of the therapies that would exist against the Covid, such as hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, vitamin D or… the seeds of black seed.
Mixed with honey, "it seems that it gives good results", recently explained François Asselineau.
To the point of bringing the sovereignist galaxy out of electoral confinement?
