On July 14, during the concert at the Stade de France, the singer decided to show a video in which Mrs. Le Pen is seen with a swastika on her forehead. The leader of the Front National filed a complaint for defamation.
Next Tuesday, the American singer will perform in Nice, and the young and dynamic new local FN leader, Gaël Nofri, did not miss the opportunity… Ad against ad?
The Front National has covered posters of Madonna, in concert Tuesday in Nice, with those of Marine Le Pen to protest the previous shows’ screening of a clip in which the president of the FN was depicted with a swastika.
On the night from Thursday to Friday, about ten activists roamed Nice to replace, on some thirty posters, the face of the American singer with that of Marine Le Pen.
“We are not against freedom of expression,” assures Gaël Nofri, leader of the Bleu Marine-FN rally in Nice and unsuccessful candidate in the last legislative elections, but here, “this is a revisionist act,” an “attack against a republican party and its candidate who garnered 18%” in the presidential elections.
“There has been no reaction from elected officials, but what reaction would there have been if we had done the same with Nicolas Sarkozy or made a parallel between Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Stalin’s crimes?” the young frontist indignantly asked.
For Gaël Nofri, Madonna, who struggles to fill desperately empty concerts, is simply trying to create momentum for purely commercial purposes. But she forgets that “Marine Le Pen represents one in four voters on the Côte d’Azur.”
“These few seconds are insulting to Marine Le Pen and the 7.5 million French people who voted for her. The courts have been called upon” in Bobigny, “and they will be in Nice if Madonna repeats the provocation,” warns Gaël Nofri.
