QAnon, believed by supporters of the US elite to be pedophile Satanists involved in a plot against Donald Trump, has now surfaced in France as well. The Macron government has now opened an investigation into such conspiracy groups.
The French government agency dedicated to fighting sectarian extremism (Miviludes) has received some 15 reports in recent weeks from people sounding the alarm about the rise of QAnon in France. That writes Le Figaro. The agency describes the growth of the far-right conspiracy group as “very disturbing” in an internal announcement that the French newspaper was able to read.
Citizenship Minister Marlène Schiappa (pictured), who ordered the police and Miviludes to open an investigation, shares these concerns. The development of “new conspiracy groups” on French soil is “very disturbing,” she told France 3 last month, adding that the government is keeping a close eye on QAnon.
Right now, the QAnon movement has “ a few hundred thousand ” supporters, said Tristan Mendès France, an expert on conspiracy movements at Université Paris-Diderot. Le Figaro. In France, the website ‘Les DéQodeurs’ would be an important gateway to the conspiracy theories of the far-right group.
‘We are the people’
The website features a large video entitled ‘Nous sommes le peuple’ (‘We are the people’), which has been viewed more than 60,000 times on YouTube since January 27. In October, YouTube had removed the Les DéQodeurs channel.
Among other things, the website provides links to articles with fake news in the style of QAnon, claiming, for example, that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was about to release documents proving the existence of a large pedophile circle in Washington DC in 2016.
In another section, ‘Armurerie’ (‘Arsenal’), more than 3,000 videos of all kinds of conspiracy theories can be found, including a two-hour video claiming that there is ‘absolute proof’ that large-scale fraud cost Donald Trump the victory during the presidential election.
‘Against French values’
“What strikes me is that in the US it took three years after its founding for QAnon to reach the mainstream,” Andrew Smith, a professor of French politics at Chichester University, told France 24. “In France, I don’t think it’s a politics threat in the immediate sense – I don’t think the guy behind the DéQodeurs website will run for president. ‘
“But the rise of QAnon is part of an erosion of socio-cultural norms, including belief in parliamentary democracy as a form of government,” he continues. “It is an alarming threat to the values of the French Republic, a trend against enlightenment.”
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