“Black sheep” in the RN: Jean-Philippe Tanguy deplores that “poor guys come to the National Rally like freeloaders”

National Rally deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy admitted on Sunday that his party attracted “crazy people” who are, according to him, “infiltrators” after the new affair targeting an RN parliamentary attaché with racist and anti-Semitic opinions. “I fired a lot of the crazy ones. But they are hiding, they are infiltrated,” assured Jean-Philippe Tanguy, guest on the “BFM politique” show.

The RN deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône Franck Allisio announced on Friday “terminating” the contract of a parliamentary attaché, questioned by Libération for online publications of “collaborationist reading tips, racist jokes and fascist slogans”. A new case which is added to many others revealed by the press in recent years and which undermine the strategy of demonization of the far-right party desired by Marine Le Pen.

“Absolute confidence in Jordan Bardella”

“These are poor guys and poor girls who don't even have the courage to accept their rotten opinions, who come to the National Rally like freeloaders,” explained Jean-Philippe Tanguy. “You even had parliamentary assistants who worked for us, and who, under pseudonyms, insulted us at the same time,” he said. “As soon as we find out, we fire them” but “I am not a psychiatrist and I am not the DGSI”, he justified.

The MP also reaffirmed "his absolute confidence in Jordan Bardella" despite the new revelations made by Le Canard aîné, Libération or Mediapart undermining the defense of the president of the RN, in particular on the closure of his Facebook accounts at the heart of the affair of the anti-Semitic remarks attributed to him. These are “not evidence” but “insignificant details” from which “journalists make completely crazy reasonings,” he accused, also accusing them of “dumping the trash” by going to interview Jordan Bardella’s childhood friends. This series will be, according to him, “that of the discredit of a part of the media-political elites who are panicked at the idea that the French could choose a choice of rupture”.