Can we qualify the RN as a « fascist »? Justice will (again) decide – Liberation
Can we attach to the national rally the qualifiers « fascist »,, « Neofascist » Or « Neonazia » ? This is the question that will occupy the 17th Chamber of the Paris Criminal Court on Friday (competent in the so -called « Press »). The hearing will oppose Tiffany Joncour, far -right deputy of the 13th district of the Rhône, and Allan Brunon, militant with rebellious France. She reproaches him for his tweets « Abjurious » dating from last December, while the person’s advice denounces a « Bag procedure ». A new example of the semantic guerrillas long carried out by lepeny in an attempt to impose its version of the meaning of the words, and to prohibit the terms which it deems disqualifying.
The story is not new and the party’s vindicote even goes to the qualification « Extreme right ». Already in 1995, Jean-Marie Le Pen refused this label and had dragged Release Before the courts for having assigned it to him. Justice had dismissed him, considering that it was, on his part, a « Disable abuse »targeting, « Deliberately dissuasive, to censor the journalist’s vocabulary ». Rebelote in 1997, on appeal, when the judges had estimated that « Nothing is more contrary to freedom of expression than the imposition of semantics, and nothing is more contrary to democracy than compulsory political semantics ».
Having become boss of the FN in 2011, Marine Le Pen D