First of all, his maternal great-grandfather. Mohand Séghir Mada, Algerian immigrant worker, arrived in France from Kabylia – which suggests he was Berber – in the 1930s. In addition, however, it turns out that there is a return to North Africa, to the family. Bardella’s paternal grandfather, Guerrino, married Mada’s daughter, Réjane, with whom he had Olivier, Jordan’s father, in 1968. But after the divorce, he moved to Morocco where he married Hakima as his second wife.
The magazine uncovered a renewal of a residence permit for “family reunification” reasons dated 2016, which places the grandfather on the southern shore of the Mediterranean at least a decade earlier, registered as an Italian citizen.
Now eighty years old, a retired carpenter, the old Guerrino would live with his new wife in the Bourgogne district of Casablanca, frequenting the expat community, especially the restaurant «Chez Massimo».
And — be careful — would have embraced Islam. At least formally. Young Africa stresses that “the law in force in Morocco establishes that a citizen cannot marry a foreigner of non-Muslim faith unless the latter has officially converted in front of an adoul (a religious legal authority) and several witnesses.”
No scandal, but an aura of mystery that the young Bardella has maintained around this less presentable branch of the family — according to his program. The exclusion of French dual nationals from certain sensitive positions, for example, the demand for a referendum to reform the jus soli, the right to citizenship based on birth on French territory, How would they reconcile with its origins?
Already the history of the Italian descent it does not fit well with the policy of his Rassemblement National, which puts “the migration crisis” at the top of France’s priorities. It is a well-known story: The Bardellas are originally from Alvito in Lazio, father Olivier was born in Montreuil, in the vast popular department of Seine-Saint Denis north of Paris; mother Luisa Bertelli-Mota arrived from Turin in the 1960s (and therefore born in Italy). He was the owner of a small vending machine company, she worked in nursery schools, divorced early, little Jordan growing up with shared custody, especially at the mother’s house.
It doesn’t get deleted though a Kabyle grandmother and a grandfather who lives in Casablanca, converted to Islam, in the family album of the scion designated by the Le Pens, owners of a party that is mainly anti-Arab in its foundations, which still gathers consensus among the most chauvinistic sectors of the French electorate.
The list of candidates of the Rn still includes members of the old guard. The site
Mediapart
highlights, among others, the success in the second constituency of the Pyrenees of Monique Becker, who made a name for herself by praising the OAS, the paramilitary group that bloodily opposed Algeria’s independence.
