The scene takes place in front of dozens of cameras in Hénin-Beaumont, northern stronghold of Marine Le Pen’s RN.
A few minutes before 8 p.m., far-right activists gathered at the Salle Debeyre. The televisions will officially announce the results of the second round of the presidential election. Like other journalists present on the spot, our colleagues from La Voix du Nord filmed these activists facing their moment of truth.
But for two voters of the National Rally of Marine Le Pen located in the foreground of the video, it is disillusionment. If the far-right candidate managed to obtain 41.46% of the vote, she was sharply beaten by Emmanuel Macron. And seeing the face of the president appear, their anger bursts. “Ashamed…”, “Son of p…”, “Bloody…”… The two activists go into a mad rage.
Quickly, the video taken by our colleague from La Voix du Nord went viral on Twitter and was the subject of numerous hijackings.
A video that reminds another…
In 2017, the strong – and irrational – reaction of François Fillon activists was also the subject of a video that quickly went viral. The journalists of Quotidien (TMC), had immortalized militants of the candidate of the Republicans who discovered, live, the elimination from the 1st turn of the ex-Prime Minister of Nicolas Sarkozy.