When opening Le Point this morning, several elected members of the National Rally probably fell from their chairs when they discovered the parliamentary activities of one of their colleagues from Vaucluse.
On Friday March 17, Joris Hébrard, RN deputy for the first constituency, went to the inauguration of the mosque of the Franco-Turkish Cultural Association, partly funded by Turkey.
A surprising initiative, when we know that Marine Le Pen, in her program planned
to “eradicate Islamism”
and defined the latter in particular by
“the existence of links with foreign powers or organizations which promote disloyalty towards France »
.
On the association's Facebook page, a photo of the elected official posing, all smiles, in front of a Turkish flag.
It would seem that Joris Hébrard, who had already been singled out by Liberation for having hired a parliamentary assistant close to certain anti-Semitic circles, had set foot in the dish.
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"I don't understand, it's really nonsense, he is turning his back on what is at the heart of the mobilization of our electorate"
we choke, at the RN, on hearing the news.
The MP in question, who had not taken the trouble to keep his group leader informed, must have heard his ears ringing this morning, when almost all of his colleagues strongly condemned his behavior as an "Islamic
leftist
".
Marine Le Pen, for her part, indicated that it was a
“personal initiative of this deputy”
.
“
I very clearly disagree
,” she added.
We will discuss it, it's like with the taxman, there is the right to make mistakes, only once.
No sanction planned on the horizon for the moment, it seems.
"Joris Hébrard is 60% because part of the Turkish community votes for him, he is not going to stigmatize them"
Meanwhile, to the right of the RN, Reconquest is jubilant.
One sentence, in particular, caught the attention of Marine Le Pen's competitors: that of Joris Hébrard's collaborator who assures Le
Point
:
“The Turkish community is part of Pontet, it is dynamic, it has many entrepreneurs.
France is changing its face, Reconquest will have to be done there.
“So they tell us that the RN no longer wants to fight against population change”
, chokes a Reconquest executive who believes he sees Marine Le Pen as a reincarnation of Olivier Faure.
And to add:
“And in the justification, it is crass clientelism.”
On the side of Joris Hébrard, on the other hand, the initiative is fully assumed.
“Maybe it doesn't appeal to people, but politics is terrain
,” assures Xavier Magnin, assistant to the deputy responsible for responding to the press.
J
oris Hébrard is 60% because part of the Turkish community votes for him, he is not going to stigmatize them.
Moreover, let us be reassured: "
The fact of inaugurating a mosque does not make it a Muslim, we must stop the amalgams and shortcuts."