who is Malika Sorel-Sutter, number 2 on the RN list? – Liberation

European elections 2024 file Former member of the High Council for Integration under Nicolas Sarkozy, the essayist joins Jordan Bardella’s list for the June 9 election. Its positions have long been close to those of the National Rally. In 2010, she spoke of “the savagery of children of immigrant origin”.

Essayist Malika Sorel-Sutter announced on Sunday March 24 that she was joining the National Rally (RN) and would appear in second position on the far-right party’s list in the European elections, behind Jordan Bardella. Stated objective: to deal with “migratory chaos”. “Today, by supporting Marine Le Pen, by being number 2 on the list led by Jordan Bardella, I wish to participate in the French recomposition,” declared Malika Sorel-Sutter in Le Figaro, two and a half months before the election. June 9.

Born in France, this daughter of Algerians was a member of the High Council for Integration during Nicolas Sarkozy’s five-year term. She has written several essays on immigration and what she calls the “decomposition of France”, accusing “a part” of immigrants of “turning against the host land”. She has long voiced virulent criticism on the volume of migratory flows towards France, and on the place and manifestations of Islam in France.

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“Marine Le Pen is looking at a certain number of realities in the face,” she already said in 2017, while supporting François Fillon. “I believe that the National Rally is the only party that defends the higher interests of France and the French people,” she said on Sunday, highlighting her “fear of a Lebanization of France,” with a “migratory, security, academic” “chaos”.

At the beginning of the 2010s, around ten posts published on her blog were also published on the virulently Islamophobic site “Riposte Laïque”, to which she also gave at least two interviews. In these writings, already close to the Lepénist vulgate, she denounced “the hysteria of the media”, the “suicide” of the French people or even that “our society […] creates the savagery of children from immigrant backgrounds, a savagery which will ultimately destroy them.”

She is the second non-political figure to join the list of the National Rally for the European election, after the former boss of the European border protection agency Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri – whose mandate at the head of the institution had been marked by a series of scandals.