“I’m shocked. My team too. I’m 44 years old, I come from a modest family and I was never told that I wasn’t at home in France. Obviously, I took a hit” , Aude Amadou confided on the phone this Monday morning.
“We are at home” stickers on Aude Amadou’s posters
This Sunday evening, in the town of Pont-Saint-Martin, south of Nantes, stickers “We are at home” of small far-right group Génération identitaire, dissolved in 2021, were discovered on his campaign posters. Aude Amadou, former professional handball player and former MP between 2017 and 2022, is the Renaissance candidate – Together! – on the 4th constituency of Loire-Atlantique for early legislative elections.
Aude Amadou specifies that she alerted the prefecture, who invited her to file a complaintwhich must be done in the afternoon, this Monday.
Yannick Fetiveau, the mayor of the commune of Pont-Saint-Martin, showed his solidarity at this moment. On her X account, Ecologist Julie Laernoes writes “I give him all my support.”
Swastikas on posters by Julie Laernoes
Julie Laernoes, outgoing MP for the New Popular Front and candidate for re-election, says that she too has seen her campaign posters soiled. Swastikas were drawn on them. HAS Rezé and Nantes-sudat the end of the week and this weekend, let those around him know.
“This is the first time that my posters have been tagged with swastikas, she writes. The far right is the real danger. She feels herself growing wings. We are witnessing a liberation from racist and anti-Semitic acts. We will not be intimidated in defending our values.”
The different candidates for the 4th constituency of Loire-Atlantique
- Mattis Gauvin (Far left)
- Stéphane Pellegrini (Lutte Ouvrière – Far left)
- François Olléon (Ecologists)
- Astrid Lusson (Les Républicains – Various right)
- Aude Amadou (Renaissance – Together!)
- Gaëlle Pineau (RN)
- Julie Laernoes (EELV, New Popular Front – Union of the Left) and outgoing MP
