Far-right National Rally (RN) leader Jordan Bardella denies allegations that he made antisemitic comments in private messages in 2013, when he was 17 or 18. The claims are published by the French investigative outlet Mediapart, which says Bardella wrote remarks including that “The Jew has to dominate other peoples, crush them, and rob them,” and that “a Zionist is necessarily a Jew.”
Bardella, a close ally of RN leader Marine Le Pen, rejects the reports as “blatant falsehoods” and says he will take legal action. The outlets describe Bardella as a leading figure in RN and a likely contender for prime minister if Le Pen wins the next presidential election.
Across the sources, the main difference is emphasis: some focus on Bardella’s denial and promised legal steps, while others foreground Mediapart’s specific quotation from the alleged 2013 chat messages.
