In “private trip” to the United States, the president of the FN is accompanied by Pierre Ceyrac, former FN deputy and ex-representative in France of the Moon sect.
Officially it is a "private trip" : three months before the presidential election, it is for "breathe a little", in the words of his campaign manager David Rachline, that Marine Le Pen has been staying in New York since Wednesday. Maximum discretion: neither the candidate nor her party have yet officially communicated on the travel program.
A journey that nevertheless smacks of politics. Thursday, Marine Le Pen was thus displayed at a table in a cafe on the ground floor of Trump Tower, Donald Trump's headquarters until the entrance of the billionaire to the White House. With her, her companion Louis Aliot; the Italian businessman Guido Lombardi, who for several years has acted as intermediary between the American and European radical right; and a fourth thief, with an even more surprising profile: Pierre Ceyrac (with the red tie in the photo below).
From Moon to the FN
Aged 70, the man is no stranger to the National Front. He has even is one of the 35 frontist deputies of the short mandate 1986-1988. Elected in the North, the native of Douai stands out for two reasons. He is the nephew of François Ceyrac, a former president of the National Council of French employers - the ancestor of Medef. Above all, at the time, he was the representative in France of the "Unification Church", better known as the "Moon sect". Led from South Korea by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, self-proclaimed messiah and billionaire wheeler-dealer, the movement claims tens of thousands of followers worldwide. It is also characterized by its virulent anti-communism, a point in common with the National Front of Jean-Marie Le Pen.
By joining the latter, Ceyrac thus hopes to increase the influence of his Church: “Personally, I was not attracted to Le Pen or politics, but it was decided that I would be sacrificed for the cause,” he would say later. As for the National Front, in addition to a probable financial contribution (which it has always denied), it will benefit from the extraordinary international address book of the sect, put to good use in a series of trips intended to underline the presidential stature of Jean- Marie Le Pen.
From one Le Pen to another
These movements will know their apotheosis in 1987… in the United States. That year, one evening in February, Jean-Marie Le Pen succeeded in shaking hands with President Ronald Reagan, before a banquet chaired by him. A brief meeting due to the American networks of Pierre Ceyrac, and immortalized by a photo which the frontist communication services will know how to make good use of. But Ceyrac will not last in the National Front: mortified by the affair of the "point of detail", he will leave the party in 1994, “following the accumulation of little phrases by Le Pen”. Before also breaking with the Moon sect in 1997.
However, Ceyrac does not seem to have completely severed ties with the National Front: according to historian Valérie Igounet, specialist of the FN, he would have made a first trip to the United States in 2003 with Marine Le Pen, a trip which would also have included Guido Lombardi.
Joined Thursday by Release, Pierre Ceyrac confirms that he is once again on American soil with the president of the Front. "I was walking on Fifth Avenue when Marine Le Pen came near me", he tries first. Before acknowledging to act as intermediaries for the candidate: “I am retired from politics, but Marine is a friend. We took part in long-planned interviews: since her arrival, she has seen about thirty people,” assures without further details the former deputy. Which confirms, however, thatno meeting is scheduled with Donald Trump. Organizing two meetings between a president of the FN and that of the United States thirty years apart: that would have crowned this long and astonishing career alongside the Le Pens.
Dominique Albertini
source: Liberation.fr
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