Marine Le Pen

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• EU Pension Chief: Europe Needs 50 Million Immigrants by 2050 to Maintain Workforce
  4 December 2019, by Sylvanus

  Just a few hours before the December 5 strike, Jean-Paul Delevoye, High Commissioner for Pensions, defended his reform on Friday, November 29, during a meeting with young people in Créteil.
  "The European demographic and its aging means that, if we want to keep the same number of active people in the economic machine, we will need 50 million so-called foreign population to balance the active population in 2050 in Europe." This is how Jean-Paul Delevoye, High Commissioner for Pensions, (…)

• Mosque Attack Suspect’s 2015 Photo with Le Pen Sparks Controversy for Far-Right Party
  4 November 2019, by Sylvanus

  The controversy is raging around a photo taken in 2015 showing Claude Sinké, the author of the attack on the Bayonne mosque, Marine Le Pen, President of the Rassemblement national (RN), the former Front national (FN), and other candidates in the cantonal elections.
  Social networks are raging after the release of this shot taken by the photographer, Isabelle Louvier, reports Sudouest. For its part, the Rassemblement national (RN) is trying to get out of this embarrassing situation.
  After (…)

• French Justice Minister Under Fire for Comments on Religious Insults
  31 January 2020, by Bladi.net

  For declaring that an insult against a religion constituted "an attack on freedom of conscience", the Minister of Justice, Nicole Belloubet, is the subject of strong criticism.
  "In a democracy, the death threat is unacceptable [...]. The insult to religion is obviously an attack on freedom of conscience; it is serious, but it has nothing to do with the threat (of death)", Nicole Belloubet had declared. The minister’s remarks were referring to the Mila affair, named after this 16-year-old (…)

• Marine Le Pen Urges Crackdown on Mosque Loudspeaker Calls to Prayer During Lockdown
  6 April 2020, by Sylvanus

  The president of the National Rally (RN), Marine Le Pen, claims that mosques are taking advantage of the containment instructions to broadcast the muezzin’s call to prayer through loudspeakers. She calls on the Minister of the Interior to put an end to these noise nuisances.
  In an open letter to Christophe Castaner, Marine Le Pen reports her observations. "For some time now, a number of mosques have been taking advantage of the confinement and the deployment of security forces in the (…)

• French Far-Right Leader Le Pen Denies Racial Discrimination in France
  16 June 2020, by Sylvanus

  As demonstrations against racism and police violence do not falter, the president of the National Rally (RN), Marine Le Pen, said on Monday that there were no "racial discrimination" in France.
  "I don’t believe there is racial discrimination in our country" but "major social discrimination," she said on RTL. To support her argument, she explains: "When we implemented anonymous CVs, we realized that young people of foreign origin were less hired in companies than when the CV was not (…)

• Jean-Marie Le Pen Acquitted in Racial Hatred Trial Over 2014 Comments
  30 October 2021, by Ginette

  Tried for incitement to racial hatred for remarks made in 2014, the former president of the National Front was acquitted by the Paris Criminal Court. In a video posted on the National Front’s website, Jean-Marie Le Pen had insulted artists engaged against the far right.
  Referring to Guy Bedos and Madonna, he had stated in his video that "Bedoche" and "Maldonna" were his elected officials of the week, and "that we should marry them." "And Patrick Bruel?" Marie d’Herbais de Thun, who was (…)

• French Leaders Express Condolences as Nation Mourns 5-Year-Old Rayan’s Tragic Death
  6 February 2022, by Prince

  The president of the Rassemblement national (RN), Marine Le Pen, expressed her solidarity with the family of Rayan, the 5-year-old boy who died on Saturday after being trapped for five days in a 32-meter deep well.
  "This tragedy touches us all. We accompany the family of little Rayan with our thoughts and prayers," Marine Le Pen posted on her Twitter account.
  President Emmanuel Macron, as well as several French and other personalities, have already expressed their compassion to the (…)

• French Election: Moroccan Immigrants Consider Leaving if Far-Right Candidates Win
  10 April 2022, by Sylvanus

  Halima, a Moroccan mother, says she would leave France if Eric Zemmour or Marine Le Pen were elected head of the country. The French are voting in the first round of the presidential election this Sunday, April 10, 2022.
  "If Zemmour or Le Pen take the keys to the Élysée, I’ll leave France with dignity," says Halima, a divorced mother of three daughters, a resident in France, interviewed by Le Point Afrique. Zemmour had announced the creation of a "ministry of remigration and threatened to (…)