Far-right French politician tells Russian paper the West was behind the Charlie Hebdo attack

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Hot Air:

Noah Rothman

January 18, 2015

 

The godfather of the French right and the founder of the French Front National Party may be out of politics, but he is not out of the public spotlight. While he never held office higher than membership in the European Parliament and the French National Assembly, Jean-Marie Le Pen’s progeny seeks to succeed where he failed. And she may do just that; Marine Le Pen has repeatedly shown that she has the savvy and moderation that her father lacked. Her biggest obstacle to advancing in French politics may be the fact that her dad just won’t stop talking. Sound familiar? It should.

 

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s leading right-leaning party, recently told a pro-Putin Russian newspaper exactly what they wanted to hear: The West’s intelligence agencies, and not radical Islamist terrorism, were responsible for the attack on the satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo.

 

 

In an interview with a virulently anti-Western Russian newspaper, Mr Le Pen, 86, gave credence to conspiracy theories circulating on the internet suggesting that the attack was the work of American or Israeli agents seeking to foment a civil war between Islam and the West.

 

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Surely, Le Pen was just asking questions. That’s precisely what former Rep. Ron Paul was doing when he was asked to explain why the institute that bears his name published a report also claiming that the Charlie Hebdo attack bore “many of the characteristics” of a “false flag” operation.

 

When asked point-blank if he agreed with the assertion that the attacks in Pairs were actually the work of Western intelligence agencies, Paul said he did not. He told a NewsMax host that the author who inferred Western complicity in the attacks, Paul Craig Roberts, was only asking pointed questions about the terrorist assaults in Paris. Questions that Paul enthusiastically repeated:

 

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