The decor, with its fake palm trees and its artificial river that exhales chlorine, is well known to the far right: Marion Maréchal, Eric Zemmour or Marine Le Pen have already organized events at La Palmeraie, in the 15e district of Paris. It is in this room that the media omerta took refuge, Wednesday, November 16, to celebrate its launch, in front of several hundred people. The outcome of a “track game”according to the editorial director, Régis Le Sommier, who successively saw Le Grand Rex, then the Théâtre du Gymnase close the door in his face.
The first did so after the publication of a article of Releasemid-October, recounting the aims “prorussians” of this new website. The second, after the mobilization of LGBT activists against a documentary produced by omerta accused of “transphobia”. A film of which Freeze frames has also demonstrated that its director had used a false identity to obtain testimonies, twisting with her interlocutors the real aim of her project. The promoters ofOmerta, them, denounce “censorship” and “pressures”.
Coincidence or necessity, the idea of launching this site emerged in the wake of the suspension of the Russian state media RT – where Mr. Le Sommier officiated –, decided by the European Union following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, February 24.
Immigration, insecurity and “wokism”
Its president, Charles d’Anjou, 40, a former executive of the Les Républicains party, has worked for the past fifteen years in Russia – a country whose language he speaks fluently – in the field of security, “economic or physical, for large foreign groups”, he explains. With enough success for this neophyte of the media to allow himself to spend, according to his words, a million euros in this company, of which he presents himself as the sole shareholder. omerta boasts a team of around thirty employees, and has just launched a smartphone application.
Relying on video, the site intends to produce documentaries on the terrain of war, or to offer subjects on immigration, insecurity and “wokism”. A menu that appeals to the far right, since several executives, elected or former candidates, of the National Rally attended the launch party, as did the head of Lille identity, Aurélien Verhassel.
The former head of internal intelligence, the Sarkozyist Bernard Squarcini, reconverted into security consulting, also came, as well as the centrist ex-senator Yves Pozzo di Borgo, a notorious Russophile, targeted by an investigation for corruption in link with Russia. Present in the room, the ideologue of the identity far right, Jean-Yves Le Gallou, summed up the ambient tone in a tweet: “Congratulations to Régis Le Sommier for creating this new reinfosphere media. »