"Arabs out", "France is run by Zionist Jews"... An investigation opened on the Facebook group "France with Jordan Bardella" including nine RN deputies

" Arabs out ", " France is run by Zionist Jews ", " Macron, little faggot", "Attal... it's like anal... all in the ass..." , "Yes to Bardella, no to Yasmira" , "Are there still French people here????" ... These are the kinds of comments that could be read on the Facebook group "France with Jordan Bardella" .

In early June, the online media outlet Les Jours , which initiated the investigation, also revealed that it had identified nine National Rally MPs who were members of this group, which glorifies the president of the far-right party. In addition to the RN MPs who were members of the group, the group was administered by several executives, former candidates, and parliamentary collaborators of the Le Pen party.

The National Center for Combating Online Hate (PNLH) is investigating the authors of these racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic comments, the Paris prosecutor's office announced, contacted by Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Wednesday, August 27. The PNLH "has carried out investigations to identify the authors of the comments made online," the public prosecutor's office said.

According to Article 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the nine MPs had a legal obligation to report the dozens of illegal comments posted on the group. On June 5, three days after the Jours investigation was published, it was LFI MP Thomas Portes who made a report to the Paris public prosecutor, citing in particular the presence of RN elected officials.

When Les Jours contacted the incriminated elected officials, several of them left "France with Jordan Bardella." Identified, the administrators renamed the group "For France" in an attempt to erase any connection with the party, before simply leaving it.

The RN had wanted to minimize the scope of these revelations. "On their part, this shows a form of amateurism," an RN MP who was not targeted regretted to the AFP at the time, deploring that "the moderators are not doing their job." In June, RN MPs were asked by their leadership to leave all Facebook groups on which contentious comments had been published, franceinfo revealed.

A simple problem of moderation and amateurism, then. Nothing to do with the 120 "black sheep" - as the movement calls them - counted by Libération , 90 of whom are still members of the RN. Nothing to do either with the countless racist statements made by RN representatives, regularly singled out by the various media. Once again, the "black sheep" can no longer hide the flock of racist sheep.