“Chez Tonton” is a nice Portuguese restaurant in a quiet street in Nanterre. Food is decent. Empadão two days a week. A beefsteak with fries most of the time. Oh, only one thing… After your steak and your chocolate mousse, you might bumped into far right guru Jean-Marie Le Pen, his daughter Marine Le Pen, who is running […]
April 6, 2012
Notice the near-perfect symmetry of the two curves above? It looks like Nicolas Sarkozy is peeling off votes from the National Front, doesn’t it? When he announced his bid for re-election, Nicolas Sarkozy was faced with a choice. He could either try to draw in voters from centrist François Bayrou or he could swerve to […]
April 4, 2012
Far right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen wants to stop refunding abortion. When people realized that despite her “dediabolization” strategy, she was standing her ground on this proposal, there was quite a political circus. But there are some people out there who are boiling with rage for another reason. For them, Marine Le Pen ought […]
March 29, 2012
French presidential elections are coming up fast. It is only 25 days before the first round of voting and the walls of Paris are suddenly alive with hypocritical smiles. Yes, the candidates are sticking up posters. Putting up posters used to be an occasion for communist activists and far right members to punch each other […]
March 28, 2012
Les élections présidentielles approchant, les candidats se chicanent âprement les clefs de la République. Mais certains électeurs ne peuvent encaisser la “Gueuse.” La monarchie française tombe en 1789. La République s’installe durablement en France à partir de 1870. Et pourtant… “On nous croit décapités, mais nous respirons encore,” s’amuse Alexandre Turpain, jeune militant royaliste. L’Alliance royale, […]
March 22, 2012
After a hate-filled hit man gunned down three children and a teacher in front of a Jewish school in Toulouse, the French news magazine Le Point swiftly found the perfect suspects: a neo-Nazi gang. The killer had shot soldiers in the previous days and three ex-paratroopers were suspected of taking their revenge after they were kicked […]
March 22, 2012
After the shooting in Toulouse, the far right presidential candidate went from being on the defensive – as the media suggested the hit man was a neo-Nazi – to a massive media offensive as French Special Forces cornered islamist Mohamed Merha. Monday – 8:00 a.m – A man shoots dead a rabbi and three young children at […]
March 16, 2012
Sarkozy, Hollande, Le Pen… They are all squabbling over our dear old lady: the Republic. But there are some oddballs out there who cannot stomach the darling. Today, we meet the French Royalists. One would think that in a country which prides itself on having pruned its monarch, you would have a hard-time finding people […]
April 12, 2012
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