The government spokesman, backing Emmanuel Macron, this Monday morning alluded to Jean-Marie Le Pen’s shocking remarks about the Second World War.

Gabriel Attal, a government spokesman and supporter of Emmanuel Macron, ruled on Monday that the “atrocities” perpetrated in Ukraine by Russian soldiers in Ukraine were a “point of detail” for Marine Le Pen, a reference to his father’s provocative remarks in World War Two.

“The atrocities we saw in Ukraine are a detail point in Marine Le Pen’s history, using the formula of this party,” Gabriel Attal said during the four truths program about France 2 referring to the words of his father Jean-Marie Le Pen.

“If Marine Le Pen is elected, we will be Russia’s allies”

The latter estimated in 1987 that the gas chamber was a “detail point in the history of the Second World War”, earning him a sentence for opposing crimes against humanity.

He was later expelled from the National Front after repeating this statement in 2015.

Relaunched by journalists on the fact that Marine Le Pen has never made such a statement, Gabriel Attal evades before asserting that for the RN candidate, diplomacy is a “magic slate” as he insists that Vladimir Poutine could be an “ally” again after the war in Ukraine .

“We can see what France looks like if Marine Le Pen is elected, we will become Russia’s allies,” Gabriel Attal said, recalling specifically the loan taken by RN from a Russian bank.

“Campaigns in Charentaises” for RN candidates

Gabriel Attal further predicts that Marine Le Pen is a “campaign on Charentaises” unlike Emmanuel Macron who doubled his way to ground where he didn’t score well in the first half.

Asked during a walkabout in Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives (Calvados), Marine Le Pen hoped the televised debate between the two candidates, due to take place on Wednesday, would not be an opportunity to spread fake news.

“Hopefully nothing like what I’ve heard over the past week, the barrage of swearing, fake news, excesses like I heard again this morning in Gabriel Attal’s mouth,” he stated.

He also harshly judged supporters of candidate Macron: “they were a bit rude, insulting, offensive” before slipping: “I found the sandals very good”.