Roubaix and Wattrelos: did MP Catherine Osson plagiarize François Hollande?

Published: May 28, 2022 at 6:42 p.m.

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It was the Roubaix socialist Mehdi Chalah who identified what he thinks is plagiarismbefore being jumped back by David GuiraudNupes candidate for the legislative elections in the 8th constituency (Roubaix and Wattrelos).

What is it about ? On her Facebook page, the outgoing MP for the constituency, Catherine Osson (Together!), published this Thursday a message dedicated to his campaign launch, which took place last Tuesday. But half of this message was a pure and simple cover of François Hollande’s famous Le Bourget speechduring the 2012 presidential campaign. But the MP did not specify anywhere that it was a loan or a tribute.

“For me, this speech is a marker of the left. And besides, everyone in the room understood it! »

« Can’t wait for her to tell us that her enemy is finance… ” quipped David Guiraud, while some of his supporters noted that his text had been redacted from the reference to “ children of immigrants present in the text of the former President.

For Catherine Osson, it is ” obviously ” of an assumed reference to the text of François Hollande, of which she does not deny the balance sheet. ” I took a passage from his text during my campaign launch, because for me, this speech is a marker of the leftshe defends herself. And besides, everyone in the room understood it! The only mistake I made was not putting quotes in my Facebook post, which I have since done. »

Catherine Osson replies in the end that this affair ” one touches one without moving the other “. Another presidential borrowing, since this colorful quote is from… Jacques Chirac!

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