Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon caught up of their previous help for Bashar Al-Assad | EUROtoday

There is, within the National Rally (RN), just one authoritative voice on worldwide points. She remained speechless on Monday, December 9, 48 hours after the autumn of Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad. Marine Le Pen has not reacted publicly to occasions in Syria, refraining from commenting on the overthrow of a regime that far-right networks have all the time supported. Like Jean-Luc Mélenchon, on the opposite facet of the political spectrum, the chief of the far proper has all the time thought-about Bashar Al-Assad as a lesser evil, even a possible accomplice.

Asked by The World on her extended silence, Marine Le Pen argued for a state of affairs “relatively complex”saying to himself “surprised at the speed and recklessness of certain reactions”whether or not that of the French authorities or his personal troops, too talkative for his style. The president of the RN group within the National Assembly says she has not “never supported” Bashar Al-Assad however admits to having thought-about him as a bulwark in opposition to jihadism. And hardly believes within the guarantees of the brand new grasp of Syria, Ahmed Al-Charaa, who leads the insurgent forces.

The day earlier than, Jordan Bardella, president of the RN, thought-about the autumn of Bashar al-Assad as “a geopolitical catastrophe”as a result of “migratory risk” that it could make Europe run. Neither of the 2 far-right leaders has ever dwelled on the struggling inflicted by Bashar Al-Assad on his individuals, nor on the function that his regime performed within the exile of hundreds of thousands of Syrians.

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Since her arrival on the head of the get together co-founded by her father, Marine Le Pen has all the time seen the Arab revolutions with skepticism, saying she most well-liked “a secular dictatorship to an Islamist dictatorship”. Very early on, she was surrounded by advisors who seemed kindly on the Baathist regime, as did Jean-Marie Le Pen. Some have been guided by their hyperlinks with Russia, like his former MEP Aymeric Chauprade or the present one, Thierry Mariani. Others by their business hyperlinks with Bashar al-Assad.

This was the case of Frédéric Chatillon, private buddy of Marine Le Pen and nonetheless a supplier of the RN, largely enriched by cash from the Syrian regime for which he offered political propaganda in the course of the revolution, and vacationer communication earlier than that. Close to Ba’athist dignitaries, Frédéric Chatillon incessantly traveled to Syria whereas taking part in a key function in Marine Le Pen’s campaigns. Also in 2021, MEP Thierry Mariani and regional advisor Andrea Kotarac, present member of Ms. Le Pen’s cupboard, met Bachar Al-Assad, with whom she needed a resumption of diplomatic exchanges.

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