Nathalie Szerman

“but once the movement was launched, LFI did provide a backbone for the violence, as it will never blame any of its followers.”

Nathalie Szerman · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-07

Szerman said once the movement was launched, LFI provided a backbone for the violence because it will never blame its followers.

“LFI is the perfect embodiment of the Red-Green alliance – the alliance between leftists and Islamists,”

Nathalie Szerman · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-07

Szerman described LFI as the perfect embodiment of the Red-Green alliance between leftists and Islamists.

“Pro-Palestinian organizations, such as Urgence Palestine, have declared the month of October to be a month of revolt, and these groups are supporting and fueling these demonstrations.”

Nathalie Szerman · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-07

Szerman pointed to protestors carrying Palestinian flags and said pro-Palestinian organizations are supporting and fueling the demonstrations.

“They are fueling and empowering each other, the common ground being the claim that they are the people,”

Nathalie Szerman · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-07

Szerman said the far-left and Islamist groups are fueling and empowering each other with the common ground of claiming to represent the people.

“LFI rallies Islamist and pro-Palestinian groups on the one hand, and other French anti-system leftists who accuse the elite of enriching itself at the expense of the poor on the other. It is a revolutionary party using Islam as an inner drive. Politicized Muslims are aware of this and are also using LFI to promote their own agenda.”

Nathalie Szerman · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-07

Szerman said LFI rallies Islamist and pro-Palestinian groups alongside anti-system leftists and is a revolutionary party using Islam as an inner drive.

“I do not think that the LFI leadership made a conscious decision to trigger destructive demonstrations all over France,”

Nathalie Szerman · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-07

Szerman said she does not think LFI leadership made a conscious decision to trigger destructive demonstrations across France.

“it quickly became clear that the violence demonstrated in these protests conveyed a huge amount of hate towards the ‘system’ and not much concern for better material conditions in schools, as dozens of schools across France have suffered vandalism and blockades, and many were even set on fire.”

Nathalie Szerman · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-07

Szerman said the violence conveyed hate toward the system rather than concern for school conditions, with dozens of schools vandalized or set on fire.

“The protests started in an apparently spontaneous way in the disadvantaged, immigrant suburbs of Paris,”

Nathalie Szerman · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-07

Szerman told Fox News Digital that the protests began spontaneously in disadvantaged immigrant suburbs of Paris but quickly showed hate toward the system.

“The people are seen as the enemy of the ‘elite’ running the country, which therefore has to be overthrown.”

Nathalie Szerman · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-07

Szerman said the people are seen as the enemy of the elite running the country, which has to be overthrown.

“is not a new phenomenon,”

Nathalie Szerman · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-07

Szerman said demonstrations over school conditions at the start of an academic year in France are not a new phenomenon.

“scope of these demonstrations and their character should raise concerns.”

Nathalie Szerman · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-07

Szerman said the scope and character of the demonstrations should raise concerns.