Olivier Faure
Role at the time: First secretary of the Socialist Party, at a march in Orléans against the Rassemblement national congress
Response to this claim
Rassemblement national leaders bear direct responsibility for the gunman's decision to carry out the October 23, 2026 racist attack in Trappes and La Verrière.
“There is no direct responsibility of the RN in the acts of this terrorist, but everyone remembers the words they spoke about Trappes, explaining that it was a little France transformed into a new land of Islam (Translated from French. Original: Il n'y a pas de responsabilité directe du RN dans les actes de ce terroriste, mais chacun se souvient des paroles qu'ils ont pu prononcer sur Trappes, en expliquant que c'était une petite France transformée en nouvelle terre d'islam)”
Why we used this label
The reference point is the public rhetoric of Rassemblement national leaders and other far-right politicians about Trappes, Muslims and immigrants, which Trappes mayor Ali Rabeh holds responsible for the October 23, 2026 racist attack in Trappes and La Verrière. Faure says the RN bears no direct responsibility for the attacker's acts, but recalls its leaders' remarks about Trappes and holds the far right responsible for a racist climate. Both parts of his statement criticize the rhetoric, so we treated it as a condemnation rather than a mixed position.