France’s far-right National Alarm (RN) party, accused in a Washington Post investigation of insisting on maintaining relations with the Kremlin and seeking to weaken France’s support for Ukraine, denounced today “a hoax”, while reaffirming his willingness to revise the sanctions aimed at Russia.

According to the investigation of the American newspaper, Russia is waging a coup d’état in France, in which Marine Le Pen’s far-right party is said to be playing a major role.

The paper cites “Kremlin documents obtained by a European security agency” and which implicate Vladimir Putin’s entourage, whose methods, according to the same source, combine social media influence – run by “troll farms” – and support for far-right parties.

The broader goal is to destabilize Europe, according to the Washington Post.

“All Western European governments will change”assures Jean-Luc Chafosera former MEP linked to the RN, cited by the American newspaper.

The Washington Post, in an investigation published on Saturday, it also says that Shafoze “rents a floor of his residence” in Strasbourg to the second in command of the Russian embassy in France – who was in the Council of Europe until Russia’s exclusion from it in March 2022.

“It’s all a hoax,” reacted the representative of the National Alarm, Laurent Jacobelli, speaking to the radio station Sud Radio. He claimed that “there is no connection” between Russia and his party.

Last June, the Macron government’s rapporteur in a parliamentary committee had characterized the National Front (the FN, which was subsequently renamed the National Alarm, RN) “conveyor belt” of Russia’s positions and insisted on the party’s “alignment” with the “Russian discourse” during the “illegal annexation” of Crimea in 2014, an “alignment” that occurred shortly after the signing of a loan to the party from a Czecho-Russian bank.

“RN is indeed the representative of the Kremlin in France” and “plays a primary role in relaying Putin’s propaganda”said, following the investigation by the Washington Post, with a message on Platform X, the presidential party Renaissance of President Emmanuel Macron.

This position was rejected by Jacobelli, who recalled it “clear position” of the RN on Russia’s invasion of Ukrainewhich was condemned by Marine Le Pen as early as February 2022.

Nevertheless party remains wary of ‘offensive weapon aid’ which is granted to Kiev and opposes the “useless embargoes” imposed on Moscow. Five months before the European elections, Jacobelli also did not hide that a far-right victory would cause “a radical change, especially in the sanctions imposed on certain countries because of their politics”.