PortraitThe ex-journalist of the far-right daily “Present”, with very marked identity and anti-immigration positions, has the role of pacifying the tense relations of the candidate of the National Rally with the media.
” Come, I will take you there ! »sings Marine Le Pen as she climbs into her black sedan. In the video posted on Facebook in February, we see Caroline Parmentier, his press adviser, grab the pole and sing the France Gall hit with her: “Behind the mirror, on the other side… Come, I’ll take you to the land of the wind, to the land of fairies. »
She dreamed of it and got there: this punchy brunette with kohled eyelids, 56, ex-editor-in-chief of the far-right daily with a traditionalist Catholic tendency Here, mother of three children, has won her place on the left of Marine Le Pen, among the closest architects of her apparent normalization.
A still fragile company, while the candidate of the National Rally (RN) claimed with violent words, Tuesday April 12, ” to assume ” of ” decide “ who is a journalist or not, to explain why access to the election evening of the first round had been refused in particular to the “Quotidien” team.
“If Marine is elected president, you will find her head of the Elysée press service. Lorrain de Saint Affrique, adviser to Jean-Marie Le Pen
On the long road to 2022, Caroline Parmentier has not left it for two years. When Marine Le Pen screams “Caro! », Marie-Caroline, her older sister, a campaign worker, and she respond in unison. The populist leader calls them “the Caros”, offering his adviser a quasi-sister position. It was in the 1990s, at a celebration of the Bleu-Blanc-Rouge of the National Front that they met for the first time. Marine Le Pen is 25 years old; Caroline Parmentier has 27. “A nice and talented girl, who sometimes came to Montretout, remembers Lorrain de Saint Affrique, a loyal adviser to Jean-Marie Le Pen. If Marine is elected president, you will find her head of the Elysée press service. »
Incisive pleas for… Zemmour
Caroline Parmentier anchored herself to the extreme right very early on. Born in Pau, to an engineer father at the National Petroleum Company of Aquitaine and a stay-at-home mother, both FN sympathizers and readers of Here. She worked there for thirty years, under the aegis of the founder, Jean Madiran, close friend of Charles Maurras and member of Action Française. Under the Occupation, he developed his anti-Semitic thought and wrote that “the Jew suffers where he sinned, while the Frenchman suffers where he allowed the Jew to sin”. The ex-host on Radio Courtoisie defends the press ” alternative “ of “reinformation”. Conversely, “the mainstream press handles lies, crawls before the conformist “doxa” and cultivates its links with the big banks and the oligarchs, she curry in 2017 on the site Breizh Info. But their reign is wavering. »
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