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Sanctioned by the National Assembly for his racist remarks, the deputy of the National Rally Grégoire de Fournas had already been noticed before by similar slippages.
Five months ago, for the legislative campaign, Grégoire de Fournas, the deputy sanctioned for racist remarks in the National Assembly, stood alongside Jordan Bardella. He was even expected to be the party’s spokesperson. But his racist remarks made Thursday, November 3 in the Assembly could well change the situation for the one who has been elected RN since 2015.
On social networks, it seems customary to slip up on African immigration. In 2019, he replied to Herwan, a black Internet user who was worried about possible racism in his town: “If Herwan wants to be with black people, he can go to Africa“. On a market in Pas-de-Calais, where the RN gathered more than 70% of the votes in the presidential elections, the words of the deputy cause little excitement. “All of France thinks that we have too many immigrants now, everyone says so, that“, wants to believe a resident. An RN executive fears that the controversy will tarnish the respectable image that the party is trying to build.