On the set of C to you this Friday, November 10, the philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévycame to present his new Ukraine at the heartwanted to react to the interview that Jordan Bardella gave to BFMTV a week earlier, and in which he declared “(not believe) that Jean-Marie Le Pen (was) anti-Semitic”. Comments to which the president of the National Rally has since returned, on the set of Pascal Praud, by mentioning“an awkwardness”. Marine Le Pen was also forced to react to the controversy sparked by her right arm, by reminding RTL that she had excluded her father from the party he had founded, after unacceptable comments he had made on the Shoah: “There are subjects on which we cannot allow any ambiguity to arise.”
But in C à vous, Bernard-Henri Lévy did not want to forgive Jordan Bardella for his “clumsiness”. Arielle Dombasle’s husband strongly condemned his comments, and accused him of being anti-Semitic after a question asked by Patrick Cohen: “Just a few days ago, on a competing channel, Jordan Bardella, to the question of whether Jean-Marie Le Pen was anti-Semitic, answered no (…) In any case, that makes him someone who doesn’t know what anti-Semitism is and who really thinks that we can make the dubious puns of Jean-Marie Le Pen in the years 90 only.”
“I am filing a complaint”
For several minutes, Bernard-Henri Lévy repeated his serious accusations: “Not being able to recognize in the rubbish that was uttered by Jean-Marie Le Pen, at the time, the mark of anti-Semitism. Not being able to say that we are breaking with that, it is because we ourselves are contaminated by this ideology.” Defamatory remarks that Jordan Bardella intends to take to court, as he immediately made known on X: “Bernard-Henri Lévy is a person of indecent dishonesty. His ignominious remarks are a defamation that I will not allow to pass, in my name as in the name of our millions of voters. Not everything is permitted in politics. So I’m filing a complaint“ declared the man who, at 28 years old, is a National Rally, MEP and regional councilor for Île-de-France.
Bernard-Henri Lévy is indecently dishonest. His ignominious and mendacious statement is a defamation that I will not allow to pass, in my name as in the name of our millions of voters. Not everything is permitted in politics. So I’m filing a complaint. https://t.co/9sZYHFLOBC
— Jordan Bardella (@J_Bardella) November 10, 2023