The Tangwall Campagin. The political fate of Marine Le Pen remains suspended from the decision of the Court of Appeal, provided for in the summer of 2026. What did you think of the first instance verdict, sentenced it to five years of ineligibility with immediate execution?
Marc Bonnant. I think this decision is deeply unfair and eminently political. It comes from the magistracy union, a union that I consider to be scoundrel. Personally, I would not vote for Marine Le Pen, but she would certainly have my support against the absurd and unfair legal battle that is given to her. In France, where politics is strongly judicial, the Republic of judges – or rather the monarchy of judges – seizes a file and comes to hinder the popular vote. It is in my eyes a serious attack on democracy, if we are really democratic.
Justice, in your opinion, still claim impartiality? Would you say that she is politicized today?
In France, there is no doubt. I think the majority of judges are looking heavily to the left. Consequently, their decisions are more dictated by an ideology than by the consciousness or the conviction required by their function. How can we get out of this quagmire? It seems to me to be extremely complex.
You are considered one of the greatest contemporary speakers, nicknamed the “Mozart du Barreau” and the “Bossuet of Prapers”. How do you look at the evolution of the French language today?
She is alive, but she is moribund. My friend Régis Debray said: “We live the passage from book to live, from the amphitheater to the stadium. »» I think that’s exactly that: the word shrinks. Roland Barthes’ formula, “The image will have the last word”is true. As for the rule of law, it is necessarily a provisional state of law – I think it must change. The future, for men like me, is shaded, sad. I am a reactionary, an unhappyness, a nostalgic. I assume it. And I don’t envy my children.
“The present lack of past, it disinherits the future”
Because the real question is not: “What world do we leave them?” »»but well: “What world do they leave us?” »» Finally, one point seems essential to me in this slow degradation: the abolition of culture. Because culture is rooting. However, we live an era that celebrates uprooting. This is particularly striking in France. You have to read Memoricide From Philippe de Villiers, a remarkable book.
We face Europe in Europe in a serious demographic problem. How to overcome it?
The causes are, quite simply that Africa spills over Europe because it thinks – rightly or wrongly – that France, in particular, is an Eldorado, and that it is only a beak of Paris. Among your elites, many rejoice. Jean-Luc Mélenchon says that the future of France is his “creolization”. For me, the France of tomorrow is undoubtedly a Muslim France. The idea of assimilation was a good thing – but it supposes that the stranger learns your story, your language, and loves them. That he loves France of cathedrals. That he considers Romance vaults as essential to your constitution. You have to love the past. And I find that the present lack of past. And so, he disinherits the future.
Can Europe, carried by a less and less proselytical Christianity, still becomes Christian again at the time of conquering Islam?
I think Islam will not allow it. Islam is proselyte and expansionist. In France, there may be too much shame in Christianity, too much repentance, too much repentance, so that he can face a conquering Islam. I hope that Christianity will be able to resist time, like Judaism. I am not Jewish, alas. I would have liked to become it, but it was a bit complicated. It is a people who deserves to be honored, regardless of the Palestinian question or Gaza. Just look at any library to measure the contribution of Jewish genius to our civilization. I like passionately the Jews.
