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A group of pro-Macron “Seniors” seems to have gone a bit too far in the campaign against the new popular union.
A group of pro-Macron “Seniors” seems to have gone a bit too far in the campaign against the new popular union. On Twitter, the account has provoked the ire of some Internet users by drawing parallels between the supposed extremism of the Nupes, and historical facts.
The account thus invoked the massacre perpetrated by the SS at Oradour-sur-Glane, on June 10, 1944. To vote #NUPES on Sunday is to choose extremes and hatred; it’s voting for a new Oradour-sur-Glane “, he wrote, in a message published the day before the first round of the legislative elections, during the period of electoral silence, and withdrawn since by Twitter. ” You are not ashamed to use this tragedy of the dark hours of our country for political purposes », for example reproached a user.
These seniors with Macron also distinguished themselves by hijacking an old poster of the national front. On a red background, Jean-Luc Mélenchon appears alongside Stalin, Lenin and Marx, crowned with the inscription ” Communism = 85 million dead. » « The reborn senile took over a National Front poster and replaced Robert Hue with Mélenchon », was indignant Henri Maler, the founder of Acrimed.
But these provocations, which have outraged many left-wing Internet users, are in fact the work of a false profile. A photo supposed to represent the group of militants holding the account makes it possible to be sure of the trickery. The faces have been transformed using software that allows the features to be aged. Lhe original photo was stolen from activists in Marchmuch younger, came to prospect on the boulevard des Batignolles, in Paris, during the presidential campaign.
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