Following the left-wing New Popular Front leading in the 2024 French election, a video of the National Rally party leader Marine Le Pen is being circulated on social media (here, here, and here), claiming she is crying after the party lost the elections. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: The video of France’s right-wing leader Marine Le Pen crying after her party’s defeat in France elections, 2024.
Fact: This video was published by the Europe1 YouTube channel in 2021 with the description, “In March 2017, Marine Le Pen was a guest on Thomas Sotto’s morning show. The president of the National Rally laughed out loud at imitations, particularly that of Jean-Jacques Bourdin.” This was also published by the French media in 2017. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
On performing a reverse image search using the keyframes of the viral video, we discovered that this video was published by the Europe1 YouTube channel in 2021 with the title “When Marine Le Pen cried with laughter at Nicolas Canteloup’s imitations” (translated). The video’s description states, “In March 2017, Marine Le Pen was a guest on Thomas Sotto’s morning show. The president of the National Rally laughed out loud at imitations, particularly that of Jean-Jacques Bourdin” (translated).
Following a subsequent keyword search based on this clue, we found that French media had published about this, stating, ” Marine Le Pen dies of laughter in front of Nicolas Canteloup on Europe 1” (here and here).
To sum up, a video of French right-wing leader Marine Le Pen laughing in a show from 2017 is being shared as if she is crying over losing the 2024 French elections.
