An RN candidate from the North, criticized for racist publications, denounces a misinterpretation

A few hours before the end of the campaign for the second round of early legislative elections, the National Rally candidate for the 4^e North constituency, Anne Morand, takes responsibility for several racist messages and photos that she published in 2023 on social networks, in which immigrants are for example compared to “invaders”. “You take it in the sense that you took it, we did not take it in an insulting sense”she justifies to France Bleu Nord.

In particular, we find on the candidate’s Facebook page a drawing published in December 2023, from the group “Patriotic Friends of Marine Le Pen”, showing a giant pig, dressed in a blue, white and red top, in a street in Paris, charging towards a crowd of veiled women, accompanied by the following sentence: “All is good in the pig”.

In November 2023, Anne Morand shared other publications from the same Facebook group: a drawing of King Clovis with the message “No to the disappearance of white people in advertising in France” ; a message saying: “I no longer want my taxes to be used to treat, house and feed invaders”.

Contacted by France Bleu Nord, the RN candidate assumes: “We never said we didn’t want Islam. We know several people whose names I won’t mention who are Muslim and who eat pork. They don’t have a problem with it. We interpret it as we interpret it. For us, it has never been interpreted as you are trying to make us say, in a racist way. You take it in the sense that you took it, we didn’t take it in an insulting sense. That’s it.”