An elected RN resigns after the controversial remarks of Julien Odoul

Franck Gaillard, RN regional advisor for Bourgogne-Franche-Comté since 2016, has decided to distance himself from the party of Marine Le Pen and with the candidate RN to the regional, Julien Odoul, after his remarks on the suicide of a farmer.

I can only dissociate myself publicly, he wrote to Marine Le Pen after the broadcast, by the daily Release, from an audio extract of a meeting of the RN group at the regional council in December 2019.

The discussion, not always audible, seems to be about the suicide of farmers. We talk about the well-being of the cow but very little about the farmer who hangs from the ridge of his shed. Did he leave a mark? Did he pee on it?, said a voice, attributed to outgoing regional councilor Jacques Ricciardetti, according to the transcription of Release. Is the rope French?, adds Julien Odoul.

“The masks are falling”

I now understand why no farmer is in an eligible position, or even on the RN list of this sad lord even though we are an important terroir, writes Franck Gaillard in his letter to Marine Le Pen.

Denouncing a devastating image, the mayor of the village of Chaume-et-Courchamp (Côte-d’Or) believes that “The masks are falling. It’s not enough to walk on a farm or take selfies with farm animals to pretend to know the French countryside, adds Mr. Gaillard.

The elected official had already distanced himself greatly from Julien Odoul and had called for not voting for his own party after being placed in ninth position on the Côte-d’Or list for the regional elections of June 20 and 27, a place that he considers unsatisfactory.

Odoul denounces a “manipulation”

Julien Odoul, given by the polls leading the first round, announced Monday file a defamation complaint against Release, denouncing a manipulation Daily who according to him would have truncated his remarks, affirming that the humor did not refer to the suicide of the farmers but to the wolf.

Julien Odoul, whose designation as head of the list is hotly contested within the regional RN, was also recently splashed by the dissemination of an old erotic video, when he was a gay model, and a report to justice, by regional RN advisers, in which they accuse him of having employed a fictitious assistant for several months.

The Dijon prosecutor’s office told AFP on Monday that they had received nothing on this subject.

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