
Marine Le Pen used the expression "Kevlar suit" during a press briefing to respond to Mediapart's publication of anti-Semitic messages attributed to Jordan Bardella in 2013, declaring that the media should also protect itself, which MP Léa Balage El Mariky interpreted as a death threat, announcing a referral to the prosecutor.
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The anti-Semitic messages attributed to Jordan Bardella date from 2013, when he was a young National Front activist, and were published by Mediapart the day before Marine Le Pen's press briefing.
Jordan said it: he and I put on our Kevlar suits, eh, because there's some heavy stuff going down there. Marine Le Pen, National Rally (RN) presidential candidate, released this sentence on Tuesday, September 29, during a press briefing organized in reaction to the publication, the day before, of anti-Semitic messages dating from 2013 attributed to Jordan Bardella, then a young National Front activist. “So now, it’s Mediapart, I think, who will have to be told to put on their Kevlar suit, because there will obviously be a response to the way they behave,” she added. However, Kevlar is used for personal protective clothing, such as bulletproof vests.
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Seeing "remarks that resemble death threats", MP Léa Balage El Mariky, spokesperson for the environmental group, announced that she would refer the matter to the public prosecutor through article 40.
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The public prosecutor will open a preliminary investigation following the referral of Léa Balage El Mariky
Likely · Within days
Marine Le Pen will maintain her statement despite the controversy
Very likely · Within weeks

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