Thursday, November 21, 2013
French far-right candidate courts 9/11 controversy
(France24) Aymeric Chauprade, the National Front’s top candidate for EU parliamentary elections next year, is making headlines in France, but mostly for an essay presenting inflammatory conspiracy theories about the September 11, 2001 attacks.
France’s National Front (FN) claims it has changed its game plan to gain wider legitimacy among ordinary voters, but one of its new faces is courting the kind of controversy that has long made most of the electorate recoil from the far-right party.
Aymeric Chauprade, a former professor at France’s most prestigious military academy, will be the top FN candidate representing Paris in European Parliament elections in May.
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