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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17417643

In a conversation held a few days before the elections, Macron warned Netanyahu that Chikli’s actions, which were openly and blatantly aimed at assisting Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally party, constituted “unacceptable” interference in France’s internal affairs.

An Israeli official who is involved in contacts between the two countries described Chikli’s behavior as “a diplomatic bomb” and a number of other diplomats who spoke with Haaretz said Chikli hurt relations with France.

  • gaael@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    4 months ago

    The English wikipedia article is not complete about the party’s foundation: Jean Marie Le Pen did found it, but not alone. Since he was the party’s president for almost 40 years, he’s the most known founder.
    Among the co-founders were two ex-Waffen SS, Pierre Bousquet and Léon Gaultier. See the french wikipedia article for more details.

    Of course, he did beat up communists not much later when he was in uni.

    And he did not stop there. During the Algerian independance war, he is believed to have tortured and supervised the torture of prisoners.
    He’s been condemned at least 25 times for antisemitism, inciting hatred and discrimination, minimizing/excusing war crimes and piblic outrage (not sure about my translations, these are serious offenses in the french law). For example, he stated multiple times that the nazi’s crematory ovens were a detail of the ww2.
    He’s been riling up the country against non-white and non-hetero people for the last decades. And he’s been president of a party that’s had litreral nazis and neonazis in its ranks, which he never seemed to care about.

    • federal reverseMEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      I stand corrected, thanks!

      La version « officielle » de la naissance du parti privilégie le rôle fondateur unique de Jean-Marie Le Pen

      It seems like an issue then that English Wikipedia seems to adhere to the FN version of its own history. :/

      • gaael@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        Most of us frenchies tend to forget the outer world exists, and we’re usually much more active on the french wikipedia pages than the global ones - especially for topics such as details regarding our political parties. Even in French newspapers it’s often implied that JM Le Pen was the sole founder of the FN.