Presidential: a former porn actress is not welcome among the members of Zemmour

Europe 1 with AFP 5:20 p.m., March 31, 2022, modified at 5:21 p.m., March 31, 2022

The past of a member of Reconquest!

who starred in X-rated films for ten years, caused a crisis within Éric Zemmour's party in Ardèche, the ex-porn actress and her husband publicly denouncing their "eviction".

The couple, contacted Thursday by AFP after the Dauphiné Libéré reported the case, are indignant at their recent "eviction" from the departmental office "on the grounds of the former profession, however legal, of Madame".

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Why were an Ardèche porn actress and her husband ousted from the Zemmour party?

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Shelved by the "tribunal of the Inquisition"

Francine Floch, alias "Josephine of Mauritius", made a career from 1997 to 2008 in pornographic cinema.

Her husband Didier Floch, a former radio host, was her producer.

Seduced by Éric Zemmour's candidacy for the presidential election, both had offered their services to Reconquête!

at the end of last year, Mr. Floch then becoming general secretary of the party in Ardèche, where they live.

In mid-February, however, the departmental coordinator of the party asked them to close two blogs evoking the career of the wife in X and an old conviction of the husband, who no longer appears in his criminal record.

Justifying this rehabilitation, Didier Floch refused to comply, just like his wife.

On February 23, their case was examined by the Ardèche office of Reconquête!, transformed into a "tribunal of the Inquisition" according to them: faced with their persistent refusal to withdraw from the Internet, the other members resigned so that a new office is formed without the couple.

"No black sheep or dubious profile"

An "unfair maneuver" and "inadmissible" in the eyes of the two activists, whom they say they denounced in vain to the national authorities of the party, before leaving Reconquest!

last week.

"They were not dismissed, there was no disciplinary procedure against them, I spoke with them to try to find a compromise," Thibault Verny, regional coordinator of the regional coordinator, told AFP on Thursday. left.

"We paid attention to who joined the departmental offices, I asked to check everyone's past so that we didn't have a bad apple or a dubious profile, it came out at that time", said he added about Mrs. Bloch's past.

"The majority of the office was uncomfortable and we asked them to put their websites on stand-by for a few months, the time of the campaign. They refused and I was forced to ask for the formation of a new office," the official concluded.