Regional in France: Eric Dupond-Moretti rings the charge against Marine Le Pen

French Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti (C) as he visits the Loos en Gohelle slag heap, during the launch of the regional election campaign, near Lens, in northern France, May 8, 2021. AFP - FRANCOIS LO PRESTI

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A thunderous entry into the countryside.

A few hours after announcing that he would be on the LaREM list in Hauts-de-France, Éric Dupond-Moretti made his first trip near Lens with a clear message: it is to fight Marine Le Pen that the guard des Sceaux is engaged in a region which could, according to the polls, fall into the hands of the extreme right.

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Not a word or almost on the outgoing president of the region: “

 Xavier Bertrand is an adversary, he is not an enemy.

On the other hand, everything that Marine Le Peste, Marine Le Pen wears, I hate it,

 ”he said.

In the sights of Eric Dupond-Moretti, Marine le Pen and his party who have made their stronghold in the Hauts-de-France region: “ 

This land is a land of fraternity, it is a land of immigration, and all that, you see, deserves better than the hatred that the National Rally diffuses and propagates, he

pleads.

 I do not want to hunt on the lands of the National Front, I want to drive the National Front from this land.

Because I believe that the National Front is dangerous, deadly for our democracy. 

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Eric Dupont-Moretti, democracy lawyer and historian, exit demonization, the ogre of the assizes refers Marine Le Pen to the history of her party and to her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen.

He who says he is in favor of the inequality of races, and who thinks it, for example we have forgotten all that?"

He had 18 or 19 convictions for racial hatred, did we forget all that?

His disgusting puns "Durafour crematorium" and so on and the best, have we forgotten all that? 

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Coup de com ', we comment in the camp of the favorite in the polls, Xavier Bertrand, elected with difficulty in 2015 against Marine Le Pen.

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