"Casting error": National Assembly Vice-President Nadège Abomangoli targeted by racist letter

The Vice-President of the National Assembly and LFI MP Nadège Abomangoli published on X this Friday, July 11, a racist letter from a certain "Mr. Jourdain," which notably attacks the status of the elected official, which gives her "shivers of unease."

"Madame fake vice president, I hope that the dissolution will take place because you are a casting error (...) A black woman has no place in this position," said the author of the letter, who asserts his status as a "white man" and his "last name" which would have "more merit" to hold his position.

"Decolonialism does not make you legitimate. Leave. You have no place here." Nor anywhere else," the author of this letter also wrote.

On X, the LFI MP denounced this person's comments, stating that "a black woman at the helm of the assembly means seeing their sexist and racist hierarchy, as well as their privileges, collapse."

"In today's France, racists unashamedly express their nostalgia for slavery and colonization, their hatred of us and our success," Nadège Abomangoli explained on the social network.

"They think they're humiliating us, intimidating us, and scaring us. They're wrong," she added. In response, LFI MP leader Mathilde Panot lent her support to Nadège Abomangoli: "With all due respect to racists, we are immensely proud that the first Black woman to preside over the assembly is a rebel and an anti-racist."

National Assembly President Yaël Braun-Pivet also condemned the insults against the MP, stating that "racism has no place in our Republic."

This is not the first time a member of parliament has been targeted by racist insults. In 2022, LFI MP Carlos Martens Bilongo reported receiving around 100 racist insults in his emails.

These messages came, according to the elected official, after RN MP Grégoire de Fournas had said in the National Assembly that he "should return to Africa." The RN MP said the comments concerned a boat carrying migrants.

In June 2023, Horizons MP Naïma Moutchou filed a complaint after receiving an email containing a photo of a monkey, a hangman's noose, and a middle finger.

In 2024, French authorities recorded 9,400 crimes and offenses of a "racist nature," an annual increase of 11% compared to 2023.