In Elyzeethe elected various left Michel Loussouarn is presented as close to the candidate, the authors having confused him with a namesake.
The “various left” mayor of the small town of Rosporden (Finistère) had the bad surprise to discover that he was confused in a comic strip with a relative of the far-right candidate Éric Zemmour, lamenting Friday “damage to his image“.
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“I found myself drawn as an adviser to Eric Zemmour, it made me kinda funny, especially when you’re on the opposite side“, told AFP Michel Loussouarn, saying he discovered “the blunderwhen reading comments on Twitter. “There is no possible doubt, my features are perfectly reproduced“, he lamented. “Obviously, I have a namesake who is part of Eric Zemmour’s team but it’s not me“, insisted the Breton mayor, also departmental councilor of Finistère, saying that he regretted that the”basic journalistic work“has not been done and denouncing”damage to (his) image“. The namesake of the Breton elected official would be a former soldier who led the RN Andréa Kotarac campaign for the regional elections in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes last June.
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Erratum inserted in all copies
The comic strip, published on March 10 and titled Elyzee, imagine what France would be like if Éric Zemmour were elected head of state. This fiction is the first work of the new publishing house of the former president of the Rugby club Toulonnais Mourad Boudjellal. His brother Farid Boudjellal is in the drawing and the historian François Durpaire in the screenplay. “This is a very regrettable error of homonymy for which an apology was immediately presented to Mr. Michel Loussouarn“, reacted to AFP the publishing house, adding that a”erratum” had been “printed and inserted in all copies“. “I had it checked in different outlets by acquaintances and I can say that there is not an erratum today that has been inserted“, On the contrary, assured the Breton city councilor, saying he hoped “a solution that clears up the misunderstanding“.