The French Canon Loses Its Defamation Lawsuit Against Two LFI MPs, Who Denounced the Presence of "Nazi Salutes" at Banquets.
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Pursued for denouncing the links between the French Canon banquets and the far right, Marie Messeur and Mathilde Hignet were relaxed.
On Thursday 12 November, the Criminal Court of Tours (Indre-et-Loire) acquitted the rebellious deputies Marie Mesmeur and Mathilde Hignet, accused of defamation by Le Canon Français. They had denounced...
Marie Mesmeur and Mathilde Hignet had signed a forum in which thirteen elected representatives called for a ban on one of these "patriot banks" near Rennes in November 2025.
Banquets that would be the "horizontal forum for the promotion of the far right": it is in these terms that the deputy LFI of Ille-et-Vilaine Marie Messeur described on her X account,... L的article "A propaganda tool at the service of a fascist ideology": the French Canon loses his libel case against two LFI MPs first appeared on Current Values.
The two elected officials from Ille-et-Vilaine were being sued by the company after it issued a press release in October 2025 that referred to "Nazi salutes" at previous banquets. The founders of Canon Français have ten days to appeal.
Marie Mesmeur and Mathilde Hignet had opposed the holding of a feast in Goven, in Ille-et-Vilaine, castigating a “forum to promote far-right ideology”. According to them, the judicial procedure was “political.”
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