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Who is Cassandre Fristot, the demonstrator who held up an anti-Semitic sign in Metz?

2021-08-09T17:44:55.033Z


The woman who held up an anti-Semitic sign during a demonstration against the health pass in Metz was arrested on Monday. It has


All smiles, she brandished an anti-Semitic sign during a demonstration on Saturday against the health pass in Metz.

On this cardboard sign, the question "But who?"

(Implied: who controls the media?) Was surrounded by the names of many personalities of Jewish origin or of Jewish origin.

The image aroused strong condemnation.

The one who listed these names was quick to see hers circulating on social networks. This is Cassandre Fristot, 33-year-old professor, former member of the National Front, now an activist in the Parti de la France. She was arrested in Hombourg-Haut (Moselle) and taken into police custody Monday for "incitement to discrimination". The German teacher will also be suspended "pending disciplinary action," announced the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer on his Twitter account.

We are told that we should demonize the extreme right of @MLP_officiel, that the @RNational_off has changed…


My eye!


The person who held the anti-Semitic sign yesterday in the #antivax demonstration is called #CassandreFristot and was a candidate for the FN / RN in 2017.


CQFD pic.twitter.com/If8XpLWxVC

- François Cormier-Bouligeon (@FCBDeputeduCher) August 8, 2021

According to the Moselle prefecture, the home of Cassandre Fristot was searched Monday morning.

"The police are looking to see if there is anything in their home to explain or reinforce the presumption of anti-Semitism," said the prefecture.

The teacher is also involved in political life.

A graduate of a master's degree in European and international studies, according to the Huffington Post, Cassandre Fristot was a candidate for the 2012 legislative elections under the colors of the National Front.

It had won 13% of the vote in the fourth district of Moselle.

Briefly chief of staff of Louis Aliot

Elected opposition to the municipal council of Hombourg-Haut from 2014 to 2020, Cassandre Fristot was also the ephemeral chief of staff of Louis Aliot, then vice-president of the National Front (now RN), in 2013. She will not have occupied this post only a few months, before being fired due to a dispute over her working hours.

Then the young woman left the party, denouncing a "totalitarian operation".

“She was my assistant for two months.

By the time I hire her and debauch her… She was a girl presented by Philippot's team

(at the time number two of the party, Editor's note)

in the East.

It doesn't surprise me that we find her there.

These crazy things don't make me laugh at all… It's shameful, ”responded Louis Aliot, current mayor of Perpignan, in the columns of the newspaper L'Indépendant.

In 2013, Marine Le Pen had already mentioned the case of Cassandre Fristot on France 3 Lorraine.

Annoyed by a question about her departure after the 2012 legislative elections, she described the young woman as "incompetent" who "did not even go to the end of her trial period because she was not doing the job. job for which she was hired ”.

The 30-something, who lost in the municipal elections of Hombourg-Haut in 2020, received the support of Thomas Joly, president of the far-right nationalist movement "Parti de la France". A formation founded in 2009 by former members of the National Front, including Carl Lang. Cassandre Fristot is still a member of his town's municipal council today.

Source: leparis

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