The RN vice-president of the National Assembly, Sébastien Chenu, assured Wednesday, October 26 that the National Rally would have “
no problem recognizing
” the Gayssot law which notably makes criminal negationism, formerly the mainstay of the Marine party. The pen.
"
I think we have no problem recognizing a law condemning Holocaust denial
," said the deputy from the North on Radio J. "
Holocaust denial is a terrible thing
," he added.
"
Of course we condemn it without any ambiguity
."
End of opposition
The Gayssot law was adopted in 1990, after the desecration of the Jewish cemetery of Carpentras with the assumed aim then of putting an end to anti-Semitic and revisionist speeches which were not legally reprehensible.
In particular, it creates an offense of contesting a crime against humanity.
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Opposition to this law, a long-standing marker of the National Front, seems no longer relevant in the demonized version of the National Rally, wanted by Marine Le Pen.
The latter indicated as early as the 2017 presidential campaign that she did not want to repeal the Gayssot law if she was elected.
She repeated it during the presidential election of 2022.
"Old Networks"
At the head of the far-right movement since 2011, Marine Le Pen succeeded her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, whom she expelled from the party in 2015 after his repeated remarks on the gas chambers, "
point of detail
of the history of the Second World War according to him, which earned him a court conviction.
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For Sébastien Chenu, “
we need to fight against anti-Semitism in our country in a totally rational way
”.
Anti- Semitism is for him today "
not the fact of old far-right networks
", even if they "
exist
".
“
Activist anti-Semitism is fed by the far left
,” he said.
Asked about Marine Le Pen's position recognizing two states, Israeli and Palestinian, the deputy from the North defended "
a position of balance
".
