Trappes attack: the RN announces a defamation complaint against Marine Tondelier

The National Rally will file a defamation complaint against Marine Tondelier "very soon", said Thursday Andréa Kotarac, spokesperson for Marine Le Pen, who criticizes the leader of the Ecologists for having affirmed that the author of the racist attack in Trappes had "killed in the name of the RN".

“We will initiate legal proceedings against Ms. Tondelier,” Mr. Kotarac said on franceinfo on Thursday morning, stressing that the national secretary of the Ecologists had “explained that the shooter would have killed in the name of the RN.” In fact, last week, the boss of the Greens declared on BFMTV that Kévin Tessier, the author of the racist attack in Yvelines, “had leaflets at home from a political party that can come to power” (in reality “Long live France, RN, proud to be French” stickers that he himself had had made). “What do we do with this party? We consider that it is a party like the others when people kill in its name?” added Ms. Tondelier.

A challenge that the RN “will not let pass”, reacted Mr. Kotarac, saying he was ready to “debate with the left, with political adversaries, (but) never on the basis of fake news”. Then asked by AFP to clarify whether the flame party was indeed preparing a defamation complaint against Ms. Tondelier and whether it had already been filed, the spokesperson replied: “very soon”.

In the meantime, the environmentalist candidate for the Élysée had been questioned on franceinfo and seemed to discover that the RN wanted to pursue her in court. Without changing his mind, since in his eyes the shooter “had self-made stickers at home to the glory of the RN, it is rather up to them to explain this”. “If we had heard from them the shadow of remorse, of distancing, things would be different,” she added, but “they do not explain, they do not apologize,” so “they must also draw consequences.”