The conversation between Jordan Bardella and Gabriel Attal on Tuesday night during the TF1 debate already had over 2 million views on social media as of Wednesday morning. The RN candidate in Matignon is being attacked by current tenant Gabriel Attal over his plan to ban access to certain positions in the French administration, “under threat of interference” for dual nationals. Jordan Bardella asks: “Would you install a French-Russian nuclear power plant chief? Isn’t this a matter of national interest to you? »
And Gabriel Attal retorted: “Tamara Volokhova, is she your adviser to the ID (Identity and Democracy) group in the European Parliament, which represents you in the Foreign Affairs Committee on security and defense issues? “, he continues. “It turns out that she is French-Russian, that she attends closed meetings with confidential information about the war in Ukraine,” beats the prime minister when faced with a problematic candidate from RN. “We are not talking about the nuclear power plant there ,” Jordan Bardella still answers.
The Prime Minister then continues to exploit his advantage. “The reality is that your proposal does not concern Franco-Russian people in important positions at all. (…) Given that the RN has dual citizenship, Tamara yes, but Rachida no,” insists Gabriel Attal to a mocking Manuel Bompard, who could not have said it better.
The purpose of the French intelligence note
So who is Tamara Volokhova? She is far from unknown, even if her name is not known to the general public. This 34-year-old Russian woman of Ukrainian origin came to France as a teenager and will be naturalized in 2016. Voters in Alsace are familiar with this Russian surname because the young woman presented herself several times in the Lower Rhine under the banner of the National Rally. She appeared on the far-right party’s lists in the 2020 municipal elections, then in the 2021 departmental elections and in the 2022 legislative elections, where she scored 6.55% in the first round in the 1st electoral district of Bas-Rhin in Strasbourg.
Strasbourg, a city she knows well, having worked there professionally after studying. After a communications internship in Philippe de Villiers’ office at the European Parliament, she joined the National Front in 2013. The Strasbourg site on rue 89 has already noticed Tamara Volokhova’s career in the far-right group Identity and Democracy in the European Parliament. The parliament in which she still works professionally, as Gabriel Attal recalled.
In 2019, domestic intelligence identified “influence relays” used by Russia in the context of the European elections. The RN executive was then indicted based on a French intelligence note that he was in contact with a Russian spy, Mediapart reported last year. Tamara Volokhova is still the press secretary of the RN MEPs and the technical adviser to the group in the international affairs committee..
Source: Le Parisien
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