“Navalny died for opposing your friend Putin. Save your crocodile tears. You were born before shame.”
It is with these sharp words that the Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti reacted to a publication by Jordan Bardella published on FEBRUARY.
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“Alexei Navalny died in the Arctic prison where he was serving a 19-year sentence for his opposition to the regime. This is tragic news for all defenders of human rights and fundamental freedoms
,” wrote the president of the National Rally (RN) and MEP.
The RN, Putin’s “transmission belt”
In June 2023, a commission of inquiry into foreign interference accused the RN of having been a
“transmission belt
” of Russian power.
Marine Le Pen denounced a “
sectarian, dishonest, and completely politicized report”.
At the end of December of the same year, the American newspaper
Washington Post
affirmed in a long investigation that Moscow
"is striving to undermine French support for Ukraine, according to documents"
and implicated the French nationalist party in this operation.
Marine Le Pen also made a sober publication on the social network.
“I learned of the death of Alexei Navalny, a political activist committed to defending democracy.
To his loved ones and his political family, I send my condolences.”