France’s Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez referred the matter to prosecutors on Monday after two messages were posted on the social network X, one of them by far-right ideologue Alain Soral, according to a source close to the case cited by Agence France-Presse.
Nuñez filed a report with the Paris prosecutor, Laure Beccuau, after Soral relayed an antisemitic conspiracy theory in connection with the Jeffrey Epstein case. In a post published Monday on the account “Alain Soral Officiel,” Soral claimed:
“The Epstein affair demonstrates one thing very clearly: that at the top of the Western world there exists a supremacist and racist Jewish mafia, doubly delinquent financially and sexually. Dare to say otherwise…”
The post was followed by a reply from another account, accompanied by an image bearing the words “No mercy,” stating: “Inside the head of the CRIF.”
“A perfect cocktail of conspiracy thinking”
Since the U.S. justice system released more than three million documents related to the Epstein case at the end of January, conspiracy narratives have intensified. “In this affair, there are powerful figures from around the world, money, pedocriminality, Jews – everything needed for a perfect cocktail of conspiracy thinking,” explained Julien Giry, a senior lecturer at the University of Tours, in an interview with Le Parisien on February 7.
Conspiracy theories have long surrounded the Epstein case, including claims that his 2019 death in a New York jail cell, officially ruled a suicide shortly before his trial, was orchestrated to silence the scandal.
