After having been sentenced to five years of inelegability for embezzlement of public funds, Marine Le Pen caused an animated controversy by claiming Martin Luther King Jr., a reference considered scandalous by the family of civil rights, who denounces an inappropriate recovery and a rewriting of history, BFMTV reports.
During a video message sent on April 6 in Matteo Salvini, Lega leader in Italy, the leader of the national concentration said he was ready to lead a “peaceful fight, a democratic fight,” stating: “We will take an example of Martin Luther King, who defended civil rights.”
A displaced and offensive comparison
For the family of the famous American shepherd, this comparison not only moves, but also offensive. Martin Luther King III and his wife Andrea Waters King denounced an “attempt to deform or establish false equivalences with the fight of Dr. King for …