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After the racist sentence pronounced by an RN deputy, Grégoire de Fournas, to one of his rebellious colleagues, the deputies voted the heaviest possible sanction against the culprit, Friday, November 4.
With the exception of the National Rally, deputies from all sides voted the heaviest sanction for Grégoire de Fournas, Friday, November 4, i.e. 15 days of exclusion with a ban on appearing in the National Assembly and two months during which he only receive half of his parliamentary allowance. An extremely rare decision, which has only been applied for the second time since 1958. The National Rally, for its part, cries out for manipulation. “What was said by Mr. de Fournas is neither condemnable nor regrettable, and even less in court. The reality is that there, we have a coalition of all our political opponents, who will abuse their power to give an image of the RN which is absolutely not reality“, judge Jean-Philippe Tanguy, deputy RN of the Somme.
The day before, the far-right MP had interrupted a speech by his colleague from Lto rebellious France, Carlos Bilongo. “May they return to Africa!“, he had exclaimed. According to him, this sentence referred to the migrant boats that cross the Mediterranean. A racist remark, explains La rebellious France, which organized a rally in support of Carlos Bilongo on Friday. “All night, I received different messages and different emails from people who said to me: ‘Mr. Bilongo, you are a deputy, you are lucky. Me, this insult is every day when I go to work’“, told the deputy of Val-d’Oise. The deputy RN excludes for the time being to present his resignation.