the CNCDH warns of doable manipulation of the talk round Marine Le Pen | EUROtoday

The Justice of the Peace Magali Lafourcade, secretary common of the National Consultative Commission on Human Rights (CNCDH), confirmed, Tuesday January 20, to Agence France-Presse (AFP) the remarks she made on Sunday on the set of this system “En société”, on France 5.

The Justice of the Peace mentioned she was approached a couple of months in the past by two American emissaries with a view to a doable “manipulation of French public debate” for the advantage of the chief of the far proper Marine Le Pen. On May 28, 2025, she obtained Samuel D. Samson and Christopher J. Anderson, two advisors from the Office of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, a department of the State Department created in 1977 to “help advance individual liberty and democratic freedoms around the world”.

These diplomats had been trying “elements to accredit a theory which could, perhaps, have served as support for disinformation or manipulation of the French public debate”estimated Magali Lafourcade, confirming her feedback broadcast on France 5.

Quickly, the dialog turned to Marine Le Pen. Made ineligible by a conviction at first occasion in March 2025, the far-right chief is taking part in her candidacy in the course of the enchantment trial of parliamentary assistants of MEPs from the National Front (now National Rally), which started on January 13.

American representatives “were convinced that it was a political trial which aimed to exclude her from the presidential election or to ban her for purely political reasons”reported the secretary common of the CNCDH, the unbiased French establishment for the safety of human rights. For the 2 emissaries, M^me Le Pen is “unfairly treated” and sufferer “of a political condemnation” : “They were looking for elements to support this”added Magali Lafourcade.

A gathering that questions international interference

“At that time I was very embarrassed because I found that this conversation did not need to be with allies”she mentioned, assured that she had perceived one thing“quite malicious” : “It seemed like a kind of interference to give credence to a speech which I had the feeling was aimed at interference. »

“Uncomfortable”Magali Lafourcade claims to have reported the dialogue the identical day to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “which I never do because as an independent institution, we do not report on the exchanges we have with diplomats”.

The Quai d’Orsay responded to take this matter “very seriously”she assured.

Asked by AFP to verify this trade, the ministry had not responded late Tuesday afternoon.