a campaign visual castigated by the boss of the national gendarmerie

A person dressed in a police uniform on a poster distributed by the National Rally for the European elections. In the caption of the visual, the mention “I am a gendarme, I vote for Bardella”. A montage which is not to the taste of Christian Rodriguez, the director of the national gendarmerie, who denounced the use of this photo by invoking the military status of the gendarmes, prohibiting them from taking a political position.

Asked about this on Sunday, at the end of his Paris meeting, the head of the National Rally list, Jordan Bardella, evaded the question. But he hastened to respond to the director of the gendarmerie: “The gendarmes respect the duty of reserve in their functions”conceded Jordan Bardella on X, accusing Christian Rodriguez of not doing the same and taking “publicly supported a political movement in the middle of an official campaign”.