Carried by his obsessions on Islam and immigration, Jean Messiha is used to running from TV set to TV set. Former member of the National Rally, he has his napkin ring in the programs of Pascal Praud on CNews and Cyril Hanouna on C8.
In November 2020, Jean Messiha announced to leave the far right party. Officially, due to political and strategic disagreements. The 51-year-old man, a graduate of Sciences Po Paris and ENA, could not bear to have been excluded from several polls for which he asked to be invested. In the European elections in 2019, then municipal in 2020 and regional in 2021, he was not offered anything, otherwise “Folding seats”, he explained at the time.
The original author files a complaint
But, according to The world, Messiha was actually allegedly kicked out by the RN due to “Questionable practices”. He would have indulged, on several occasions, in full plagiarism. In June, he republished verbatim in Conversationalist, the favorite newspaper of Réacs, a column initially published in The echoes. By signing, of course, the forum under his name. The essayist Loup Viallet, the original author, announced on Twitter on Friday that he had taken the case to court.
Jean Messiha “Has never admitted responsibility for what amounts to a criminal offense. Intellectual property has existed since the 18th century. I filed a complaint to defend the rights of writers ”, wrote the writer specializing in the African continent.
The management of the RN would also have paid the price for Messiha’s penchant for unauthorized copying. Starting with Jordan Bardella, during his campaign for the 2019 European elections. “We noticed that part of his work was copied and pasted. We then decided to distance ourselves from him ”, explains the current acting president of the RN in the columns of the World. In the space of a few weeks, at the beginning of 2019, Jean Messiha would have invoiced “Thirteen notes and arguments, coaching from Jordan Bardella and a trip to Metz for a total of 16,200 euros”. Out of these thirteen notes, “Nine are copied, for the most part in their entirety, from resources already online”. The polemicist, who has since joined Eric Zemmour’s campaign, would have relied on various blogs, on articles from BFM TV as well as on Wikipedia.
When considering reimbursement by the state, the National Commission for Campaign Accounts and Political Financing (CNCCFP) looked into these invoices. Several snags then appeared. Not only did he exist “A blur” allowing “Hard to know what was produced and in how long”, but in addition the company used by Jean Messiha to invoice his work would have closed in 2016 … almost three years before the European campaign. In short, the 16,200 euros were not covered by the state.