Serge Klarsfeld, a lawyer who rose to fame as a Nazi hunter, has caused a stir in France with his comments about Marine Le Pen’s right-wing National Rally (RN).
In an interview on the LCI television channel, Klarsfeld said on Saturday that he would not vote for the French left-wing party La France Insoumise (France Unbowed, LFI) in view of the upcoming parliamentary elections, but for the RN in any elections. an outlet.
The 88-year-old explained that the National Rally had changed and was now on the side of the Jews. Klarsfeld has held this position for some time.
The RN supports the Jews and the State of Israel, and in this regard he would vote in favor of a pro-Jewish party, Klarsfeld explained. At the same time, however, he said that he would vote for a centrist party as usual in the upcoming elections in his constituency.
The French Left Party, which is currently taking a decidedly pro-Palestinian line in light of the Gaza war, accused Klarsfeld of being “decidedly anti-Jewish.”
Other parties, such as the Socialists, are also currently accusing the Left Party of anti-Semitism.
The party’s position on the Gaza war was the reason for the collapse of a left-wing alliance in the National Assembly. However, the left-wing parties now want to participate in the elections again with a left-wing alliance.
Klarsfeld and his German wife Beate were responsible for unmasking Nazi criminals who had gone underground and therefore became known as “Nazi hunters” after World War II.
In the 1970s they tracked down former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie, who lived in hiding in Bolivia and was feared for his brutality as the ‘Butcher of Lyon’. Besides Simon Wiesenthal, the Klarsfelds were probably the best-known hunters of Nazi criminals after the war.
