You don’t need to speak French to hear why Marine Le Pen was accused of plagiarism
Don’t worry if you don’t remember too much about your French GCSE, you won’t need it to play French presidential election spot the difference!
On the right, obviously, is far-right leader Marine Le Pen, speaking on Monday. And on the left, defeated presidential candidate François Fillon, delivering a speech on 15 April, the two speeches edited together by @RidiculeTV.
As @taniel points out on Twitter, sound kinda similar, don’t they?
Pour parler de la France, Marine Le Pen est obligée de plagier MOT POUR MOT un discours de Fillon … #Imposture pic.twitter.com/BasTJsgLWf
— Ridicule TV (@RidiculeTV) May 1, 2017
Le Pen’s National Front party said it had owned up to the similarities and described it as a “nod and a wink” to Fillon’s speech, intended to “launch a real debate” on French identity.
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