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Fringe 2025 Article Circulated in the France Thread

Screenshot of an online article with a photomontage lead image showing an oversized figure standing behind masked soldiers in tactical gear, with the Paris skyline and a French flag behind them

What This Image Shows

A screenshot of an online article: a headline block, social sharing buttons, a byline reading Lucas Leiroz, a date of March 4, 2025, and a heavily photomontaged lead image. The montage shows an oversized figure of the French president standing behind a rank of masked soldiers in tactical gear, holding strings attached to them like a puppeteer, with the Paris skyline and a French flag behind.

The headline makes sweeping accusations against a named, living head of state. This site does not reproduce those allegations, does not repeat them, and does not adopt them. No evidence supports them, no court has found anything of the kind, and the piece is an opinion article from a fringe outlet, published six months before the assassination and unconnected to it.

It is preserved in this cluster for one reason: it circulated as background when the France thread entered the investigation in 2026 through claims Candace Owens attributed to a French government source. Knowing what material was circulating, and how weak it is, is part of assessing that thread honestly. The documented version, with its rebuttals, is at French Foreign Legion Claims; see also Intelligence.

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