The website launch party took place on Wednesday in the 15ᵉ arrondissement of Paris, in the presence of several executives, elected officials or former candidates, of the national rally.
by Olivier Faye
The decor, with its false palm trees and its artificial river which exhales the chlorine, is well known on the far right: Marion Maréchal, Eric Zemmour or Marine Le Pen have already organized events in La Palmeraie, in the 15 E arrondissement of Paris. It is in this room that the omerta media found refuge on Wednesday, November 16, to celebrate its launch, in front of several hundred people. The outcome of a “treasure hunt”, according to the editorial director, Régis le Sommier, who successively saw the Grand Rex, then the theater of the gymnasium closes his door on his nose.
The first did it after the publication of a Liberation article , mid-October, telling the” proorussi “aims of this new website. The second, after the mobilization of LGBT activists against a documentary produced by Omerta accused of “transphobia”. A film whose judgment on Images has also demonstrated that her director had used a false identity to obtain testimonies, twisting with her interlocutors the real aim of her project. The promoters of Omerta denounce “censorship” and “pressures”.
Chance or necessity, the idea of launching this site emerged in the wake of the suspension of the Russian state media RT – where Mr. Sommier officiated – decided by the European Union following the trigger for The war in Ukraine, February 24.
Immigration, insecurity and “wokism”
Its president, Charles d’Anjou, 40, former executive of the Les Républicains party, has worked for the past fifteen years in Russia – a country of which he speaks the language fluently – in the field of security, “economic or physical, For large foreign groups, “he explains. With enough success for this media neophyte to allow himself to spend, according to him, one million euros in this company, of which he presents himself as the sole shareholder. Omerta claims a team of around thirty employees, and has just launched a smartphone application.
Drawing on the video, the site intends to make documentaries on war fields, or propose subjects on immigration, insecurity and “wokism”. A menu that seduces on the far right, since several executives, elected officials or former candidates, of the national rally attended the launch party, just like the head of Lille identities, Aurélien Verhassel.