French far-right's Bardella denies alleged 2013 antisemitic comments

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Jordan Bardella, leader of France's National Rally, denied allegations that he wrote antisemitic comments in an online chat in 2013. The claims were reported by investigative website Mediapart, and Bardella called them false.

A French investigative website on Monday alleged in a report that far-right National Rally (RN) leader Jordan Bardella made antisemitic comments in writing in 2013, but the close ally of presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen denied the claims as "blatant falsehoods". According to Mediapart, Bardella wrote, among other comments, in a chat: "The Jew has to dominate other peoples, crush them, and rob them; a Zionist is necessarily a Jew, and fundamentally so."