Marine Le Pen party’s security adviser is an alleged Russian agent

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/06/26/marine-le-pen-russian-dual-national-exmodel-party-adviser/

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  1. Marine Le Pen party’s security adviser is an alleged Russian agent

    France’s National Rally has been employing former model Tamara Volokhova, a dual national and alleged ‘agent of influence’

    Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is under fire over a former model and alleged Russian “agent of influence” who is now an adviser to the party as it looks to form France’s next government.

    Tamara Volokhova, 34, is causing the hard-Right party particular embarrassment because it has vowed to ban dual-national immigrants from key jobs if it comes to power.

    During a live TV debate on Tuesday, before parliamentary elections start this weekend, Jordan Bardella, the would-be National Rally (RN) prime minister, said: “Would you put a Franco-Russian in charge of a nuclear power plant? Don’t you think that’s a subject of national interest?”

    Gabriel Attal, the incumbent prime minister of France, replied by naming Ms Volokhova, a Moscow model turned security adviser to the RN in the European Parliament, and a former personal assistant to Ms Le Pen.

    Ms Volokhova became a French citizen in 2020 despite a leaked report from the DGSI, France’s domestic intelligence service, that identified her as a suspected “agent of influence” working for Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

    Mr Attal told Mr Bardella: “It turns out that she is Franco-Russian, that she attends closed-door meetings with confidential information on the war in Ukraine.”
    Mr Bardella replied: “We’re not talking about a nuclear power plant here.”

    Earlier in 2024, Ms Le Pen published a proposed law that would prevent dual-nationals from holding a wide range of jobs across the civil service, companies and public service missions.

    Such bills could now be enshrined if the RN – which is leading opinion polls – ends up with an absolute majority in the Paris National Assembly following the parliamentary elections.

    Gérald Darmanin, the French interior minister, said on Wednesday that the RN’s proposed policy was discriminatory and would “divide the nation”.

    He said: “I don’t like this way of filtering the French.” He said it would discredit “three million French-Americans, French-Algerians, French-Portuguese, French-Moroccans”.

    Ms Le Pen, who paid a personal visit to Putin in Moscow in 2017, has long been criticised for her support of Russia.

    Her party received a €6 million (£5 million) loan from a Russian company in 2014, which has since been paid back.

    Responding in 2022 to claims that the RN was closely tied to the Moscow regime, Ms Le Pen said: “I have no friendship with Vladimir Putin, whom I met once in my life. I don’t even have financial ties with him.”

  2. Duh. Conservatives are and always have been the rights advocacy wing of landed aristocracy. Of oligarchs, robber barons, generational wealth and European monarchs. Of fascists. Of course they have deep ties to other oligarchical fascist despots. Kinda the whole point.

  4. What a surprise.

    Everyone know Le Pen is Putin’s b1tch in France.

  5. If the PVV is anything to go by this is only the tip of the iceberg. Everyone they’ve put forward as a minister is either an active foreign asset, grossly incompetent, or a conman. Or a combination of the 3.

  7. who could have thought Russia pushed the extreme right agenda during eu elections

  8. * Meme with other right wing Russian spies *
    First time?

  10. Who could’ve thought, that a woman with name Tamara Volokhova could be a russian spy?

  12. “Y u send Ukraine weapons, u must protect yourself instead”

    “If you ask for sanctions against Russia lifted, France can benefit for cheap sukhoi instead of expensive Rafael”

    “Borscht really should be a MRE choice for your military! Guess who you can buy them from for cheap!?”

  16. Far right isn’t fighting for your rights, they are defending the interests of a foreign dictatorship using lies, fear, anger and demagogy.

    They don’t care about you, they can’t fix issues, they are loud and that’s it. Rather than work for a better future they are just looking to selfishly survive what’s coming by betraying their own countries, that’s it, but it won’t work, because every plan of theirs is short-sighted.

    Once people realize this it will be too late already.

  17. How do you go from a model to being a security adviser for a political party with the potential of leading a country?

    By being in Russias pockets to begin with

  18. really wish europe wasnt swarmed with fake right wing parties funded by russia

  21. It’s mind-blowing that both the far right and the far left love Russia. I mean, one of them has to be wrong, no?

  23. It’s also very convenient news when Le Pen’s party is leading the polls…(nasty habit of mine to look at both sides of the coin…)

  27. The rule is, if you don’t like someone, call them a Russian spy

  30. The worst part is there is a big controversy those days because their fucking nazi party wants to refuse « important and sensitive jobs » to people having two nationalities, and they used the example of not wanting a French-Russian person leading a nuclear central, when they have themselves put a French Russian person in an important spot in Europe and have been funded by Russia for years now.

    But people are still extremely stupid to vote for them.

  32. Using the word “alleged” in this case, is a joke, and PC at its worst. She’s undoubtedly an agent or highly active Russian asset.

  33. Ewww, that’s a she-gopnik. Why do they do that shit to their faces?

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