In Verdun, Marine Le Pen organizes its counter-centenary of 14-18

Rarely tribute will have borrowed so much from the register of the political response. On the occasion of the centennial of the end of the Great War, it is in Verdun that Marine Le Pen wished, this November 10, to salute the memory of the "most terrible but brilliant sacrifice of the soldiers who allowed the greatest victory of our history".

Accompanied by almost all of her political office, the leader of the National Gathering gathered in front of the ossuary of Douaumont. Where rest the bodies of some 130,000 unknown soldiers, fallen in one of the deadliest battles of 14-18. "A field of white crosses in the immensity of silence. Sublime and moving temple of the homeland of men ", will praise the member of the Pas-de-Calais in front of the monument of Victory overlooking the infamous city of the Meuse.

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Despite their "spirit of sacrifice", set as an example "at a time when the Nation is going through moments of doubt," the memory of the hairy will not have loomed over the day of commemoration of Marine Le Pen. The shadow of the Head of State, as the prospect of the next European will also be invited. Posters displayed to the glory of the "Blue Army", unusual lyricism used to highlight their triumph, not to mention the anecdotes of fighting distilled by the RN cadre, and former history teacher, Gilles Penelle, everything will have come as a perfect counterpart to the official ceremonies of November 11th devised by the head of state.

Devoid of any "military expression" in order to spare the German susceptibilities and put "the accent on the peace rather than the victory", the organization of the summit of 11-November by the Élysée makes tick: "We will not let to take away their magnificent victory from the soldiers of 14. Descendants close to his heroes, we will not let ourselves be won by repentance or cowardice ", claws in his speech Marine Le Pen, a few minutes before lambasting the week of" wandering "memory that the head of state has just experienced, made of "risky communication and comments on the price of gasoline". In the room, the regional advisor of Ile-de-France, Jean-Lin Lacapelle, abounds: "We must stop spitting on the past. The President forgets that there are one million four hundred thousand people who shed their blood. "

Some foreign partners

Seated near the platform, the few foreign partners of the RN who made the trip applaud. The head of the Belgian Vlaams Belang Party, Tom Van Grieken, is one of those two Russian deputies close to Vladimir Putin's party. Or former UKIP MEP Janis Atkinson. "Matteo Salvini was also ready to come, he would have been delighted. But he has a lot of trouble with his budget, "wants to convince Marine Le Pen's adviser, Philippe Olivier, while no representative of the Italian League is present.

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Now given the lead in the polls for the next European elections, Marine Le Pen will not have resisted the temptation to evoke, in front of 500 of its faithful and executives, the stakes of the May poll: "Those are not the nations that produced the war, but the empires. What do the Europeanists do? They are organizing on a forced march a European construction on the model of a centralizing empire, which annihilates the sovereignty of the Nations and leveling down their culture, which uses threat, blackmail and pressure. "

What does it matter if the parallel between the Great War and the European futures seems daring? Head of the European Parliament's delegation to the European Parliament, MEP Gilles Lebreton explains: "Verdun is an emblematic place of French resistance. It's a source of inspiration for the coming battles. "Whether it's a treat or not, there's no lull in politics.