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We don't know what you spent your Tuesday evening doing. For our part, we received a Greek lesson from François Bayrou. A way for the Prime Minister to assure us that no, his message about Jean-Marie Le Pen was in no way light. Shortly after the death of the co-founder – with former SS, it should be remembered – of the FN, Bayrou tweeted: “Beyond the controversies which were his favorite weapon and the necessary confrontations on the merits, Le Pen will have been a figure of French political life. We knew, by fighting him, what a fighter he was.”
A post which aroused the ire of the left, but not only (we come back to this below). Because this message is perhaps a little short, young man. We could say many things in short and in particular use a word other than that of “controversies” to speak of the various excesses of the patriarch Le Pen, condemned time and again for apologizing for war crimes, contesting crimes against humanity, incitement to hatred
