Marseille: RN deputy Franck Allisio dismisses his parliamentary assistant accused of Facebook posts

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”.

According to the newspaper, Louis Grégoire, long-time collaborator and parliamentary attaché of Franck Allisio, notably wrote in 2018 on a Facebook account about the Allied landing in Normandy on June 6, 1944, having a “moved thought (for the) poor boys who died in France, sacrificed on the altar of the new world order”.

Another post from 2018 would refer to the Second World War in these terms: “The French army reconstituted by Pétain in North Africa could have done the trick if Colonel de Gaulle had not broken his neck**** (sic)”.

Conspiracy publications

Publications on this account - which is not open access, AFP noted - cite according to Libération the far-right writer Robert Brasillach, shot at the Libération for collaboration, or the essayist Pierre Hillard, whose anti-Semitic remarks notably motivated the dissolution of the fundamentalist Catholic movement Civitas.

Other publications would have conspiratorial overtones – “the globalist oligarchy (Soros, Clinton) wants to prevent Trump from exercising power” – racist, anti-Semitic or masculinist. “To make a joke about North Africans, you have to be North African, about Black people, you have to be Black, and about Jews, you have to have a good lawyer.”

“Long live the pretty girls, and too bad for the ugly fat ones (another name for feminists) who have complexes. Nature is fascist, they will have to get used to it one day,” according to a 2018 post.

An account followed by Franck Allisio

In May 2022, a photo of women of North African and African origin, most of them veiled, is accompanied by the comment: “French by Caf pourée”. In a press release, Franck Allisio indicated on Friday morning that he had “received” his parliamentary attaché “following the article published by a far-left media outlet”.

“These writings of which he is accused, and which date from 10 years ago, were unknown to everyone and predated his recruitment by the National Assembly. In order to give him time for clarification, I took the decision to terminate his contract,” continues the far-right deputy, candidate for the last municipal elections in Marseille and beaten in the second round with 40% of the votes.

Libération affirms for its part that the incriminated private account is “followed by Franck Allisio”. AFP was able to note that Louis Grégoire is among the Facebook friends of a former account of Mr. Allisio whose last public publication dates back to 2023. When contacted by AFP, neither Louis Grégoire nor Franck Allisio immediately responded.