Paris (AFP)

There is a "risk of civil war" which "smolders" in France, estimated Monday the candidate for the Elysee Marine Le Pen, using the term used by a second forum of anonymous soldiers, to which the leader of extreme right gave his support.

Civil war "is brewing. In any case it is a risk. Of course there is always a risk of civil war", declared the president of the National Gathering during a press point in Noirmoutier (Vendée) within the framework of the regional election campaign

"Civil war is brewing in France", we can read in a second forum of soldiers, of which neither the number nor the identities are known, opened for signature on the site of Valeurs Actuelles.

And "if a civil war breaks out, the army will maintain order on its own soil, because we will ask it", adds the forum.

This forum is "an observation of lucidity", said Marine Le Pen.

"I replied to the first" platform, "I will answer the same thing to the second", added the head of the RN who had invited the soldiers who signed the first platform to "join (his) action" in view from 2022.

The candidate promised, to "prevent this civil war", to take "urgent, rapid and effective measures to regain control of these lawless areas which are the seat of a separatism which is not only Islamist separatism. , but which is also a criminal separatism ".

She said she was "very shocked at the way the government responded to the first forum" of soldiers, who will be sanctioned, as well as by "the irony and contempt" of the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin about of the second.

For Marine Le Pen "this is obviously not a call for insurrection".

"Otherwise I wouldn't support her," she said.

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