The morning after Marine Le Pen
was caught using stirring language in an address to supporters that
was copied straight from a speech given two weeks ago by François
Fillon, a defeated rival, her campaign aides claimed that the
uncredited “reprise” was not plagiarism but a form of tribute to
the eliminated candidate’s ideas about French identity.
Florian Philippot, the deputy
leader of Le Pen’s National Front, said in a radio interview that
the candidate had recited whole passages, copied word for word from
Fillon’s April 15 speech, at her May Day rally in Paris because she
wanted to “launch a real debate” about what it means to be
French.
The lifted passages — including
poetic references to the borders of France that both the center-right
Fillon and the far-right Le Pen pledged to reclaim from the European
Union and fortify against Muslim immigrants — were edited into a
side-by-side comparison by Ridicule TV, which is run by Fillon
supporters. (It is not necessary to understand French to hear how
precise the copying was.)
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