National Rally Leader Indicted for Calling French City an "Islamic Republic"

"I received notification of the indictment for having described the city of Trappes as an Islamic republic when I got home yesterday," announced the interim president of the RN on Europe 1 this Wednesday. Jordan Bardella had made these remarks after the re-election of the mayor of the city, Ali Rabeh, in October 2021. In a press release, the RN MEP had deplored that "the government remains passive in the face of the constitution of Islamic republics in miniature", and demanded that the mayor be dismissed and his city placed under trusteeship. He suspected Ali Rabeh of Islamist clientelism.

This indictment does not delight Jordan Bardella who "regrets that the French justice system is pursuing the same goal today as the Islamists, namely to silence those who denounce the real and those who refuse to see countless neighborhoods in France being transformed". The elected official refers to the police protection of Ophélie Meunier, presenter of "Zone Interdite" and Amine Elbahi, a 25-year-old lawyer from Roubaix, who have "not only denounced, but simply described the reality and shown the progression of Islamism in the city of Roubaix". These two people have been threatened following the broadcast of the investigation on radical Islam largely filmed in Roubaix.