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Mediapart presents new evidence linking Bardella to antisemitic messages
Mediapart says it has found new evidence connecting French far-right leader Jordan Bardella to antisemitic messages sent in a 2013 Facebook Messenger chat.
The messages included claims about Jewish people and banks.
Bardella has denied writing them.
Four people who spoke with the account at the time told Mediapart that Bardella controlled it, and three supplied saved conversations.
Mediapart also compared the chat with posts from Bardella’s Twitter account, which has remained the same and which he has not said was hacked.
It says that in September 2013, a message in the chat repeated information Bardella had posted publicly on Twitter just two minutes earlier.
The new evidence matters because it challenges Bardella’s denial that he wrote the messages.
The sources do not say what will happen next.
Mediapart published new material it says links Jordan Bardella to a Facebook account that sent antisemitic messages in 2013.
The investigative site said four people who had communicated with the account confirmed with documents that Bardella controlled it at the time.
Three people extracted Messenger conversations that included references to personal events also found in another conversation.
Mediapart also pointed to matching posts on Bardella’s Twitter account, including one from September 12, 2013.
Bardella has denied writing the antisemitic messages, and his entourage denies any proximity to far-right ideologue Alain Soral.
- Who
- Mediapart and Jordan Bardella, president of France’s National Rally.
- What
- Mediapart published evidence it says links Bardella to an account that sent antisemitic messages.
- When
- The new article was published on October 9, 2026; the cited online posts date to 2013.
- Where
- France; the messages were exchanged on Facebook Messenger, and matching material appeared on Twitter.
- Why
- Mediapart said the documents and matching posts support its claim that Bardella controlled the account.
Mediapart
Jordan Bardella and his entourage
Account control
Mediapart
Mediapart says four people provided documents confirming Bardella controlled the account during the period.
Jordan Bardella and his entourage
Bardella denies writing the antisemitic messages; the sources do not report a direct response to the new evidence.
Connection to Soral
Mediapart
Franceinfo reported that Bardella’s posts included references associated with Alain Soral’s ideological sphere.
Jordan Bardella and his entourage
Bardella’s entourage denies any proximity to Soral.
confirmed, with documents to back their claims, that he, indeed, had control of his account during that period
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All banks are owned by Jews
the Jew must dominate other peoples, crush them and rob them
Antisemitic and conspiratorial messages appeared in a Facebook conversation attributed to an account named Jordan Bardella.
A Messenger message about François Hollande’s economic adviser matched information posted on Bardella’s Twitter account two minutes earlier, according to Mediapart.
Mediapart published new evidence linking Bardella to the account.
- People with documents
- Four said Bardella controlled the account
- Extracted chats
- Three people retrieved Messenger conversations
- Matching post
- September 12, 2013
- Twitter post time
- 22:50
- Publication date
- October 9, 2026
Sources
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