AFP - The National Front responded immediately by suspending the party Friday one of its candidates for the cantonal, hours after publishing on the website of the Nouvel Observateur the picture of the man doing the hello before a Nazi swastika flag.
The party intends to show that it sends a "signal" is "no place" in the party frontist for those that revolve around an ideology which Nazi "was an abomination," as the repeated Marine Le Pen on several occasions, at the time of the congress which has brought it to the presidency of the FN.
"Everyone must know that the National Front in it admit such behavior unacceptable carrying a repugnant ideology," said a statement Friday Marine Le Pen, in announcing an investigation "on the reality of this photograph ".
"It is a montage," the person reacts
The NouvelObs.com Friday published a photograph, undated, Alexander Gabriac, FN candidate in the canton of Grenoble-6, making the left hand hello to a Nazi swastika flag.
Several other photos were subsequently posted on the Web, where we see again the man making the same gesture.
Gabriac Alexander, 20, is regional adviser FN Rhone-Alpes and Central Committee member of the FN on the list Gollnisch, Challenger Marine Le Pen in the last party congress FN.
"It's a montage. We do not recognize me in this picture where my eyes are hidden," he told AFP the youngest regional adviser of France. He added that he intended to file a complaint against the website of the Nouvel Observateur.
Aurélien Viers, editor of nouvelobs.com, denied it a mount."We have verified that it is him, we have a whole series of photos we took the most iconic," he told AFP.
"He will have to prove to us that this photo is a montage," replied the FN
The secretary general of the FN Steeve Briois, told AFP that the candidate was "suspended from the FN and, already, is not the FN in the second round of cantonal.
"It will be excluded," continued Mr. Briois, indicating that there was "a good chance that this photo is real." "This man is close to the French Oeuvre (Nationalist Movement, Ed)," he added."He will have to prove to us that this photo is a montage," he said.
"We want to send two signs," he said, "First, the Front National, there is no place for people who have this ideology, and then a message to all those tempted to come to the National Front to make entryism, and I think the French Work, "he said.
Mr. Briois has also said: "This photo is from the Department of the Interior, 48 hours before the second round of cantonal, to try to destabilize the FN. The department "made a serious mistake because the FN is taking its responsibilities. People like that, they turns. They have no place in the Front. It will be a good way to clean house within the FN," he saidBriois.
The interior ministry has told AFP that he "absolutely contradicted these allegations."
Reacting to the publication of this photograph, SOS Racism said in a statement that the candidate of the FN "shown (is) is the true face of the party of Marine Le Pen, a party viscerally plagued by racism and antisemitism (...) nostalgic of Nazism and its evils. "
