Mischaël Modrikamen

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Mischaël Modrikamen

Mischaël Modrikamen (born February 22, 1966 in Couillet , now Charleroi ) is a Belgian lawyer and politician . He became known in connection with the Fortis affair , in which he represented around 2,400 shareholders as legal advisor. From 2000 to 2003 he was chairman of the Liberal Jewish Community of Belgium.

In 2009, he and Rudy Aernoudt founded the right-wing liberal party Parti Populaire (PP) . After Aernoudt's exclusion in 2010, the party under Modrikamen's leadership increasingly developed in the direction of right-wing populism . He named the French Front National under Marine Le Pen as a model. In October 2010 Modrikamen bought the naming rights of the discontinued socialist daily Le Peuple , which he revived as an online and bimonthly printed newspaper with a right-wing liberal to right-wing populist orientation.

Modrikamen accused the former mayor of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean , Philippe Moureaux , of complicity in the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015 for his negligence in immigration policy . He later oriented himself towards Donald Trump , whose candidacy in the 2016 US presidential election he endorsed early on and in whose swearing-in he was the only Belgian politician to take part. However, Modrikamen's offer of an alliance to Trump and his ideological advisor Stephen Bannon initially went unanswered. When Bannon suggested a Europe-wide alliance of right-wing populists in the summer of 2018, Modrikamen was one of the few European politicians who reacted positively to this initiative and presented himself as a possible governor of Bannons in Europe. On November 21, 2018, the video report "How Steve Bannon's far-right 'Movement' stalled in Europe" was published on the British Guardian's website, YouTube channel and Facebook page .

Modrikamen's wife, Yasmine Dehaene, is also a lawyer. She acts as general secretary of the PP and was executive director of the European party Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe (ADDE) before it was dissolved due to financial irregularities. The party headquarters of the PP and the apartment of Dehaenes and Modrikamens were searched in November 2017 on suspicion of misuse of European Parliament funds.

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  1. ↑ Fortis shareholders file a complaint against the deal with BNP with the EU. Reuters , May 12, 2009, accessed July 4, 2010 .
  2. ^ Teun Pauwels: Populism in Western Europe. Comparing Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. Routledge, Abingdon (Oxon) / New York 2014, p. 43.
  3. ↑ Max Biederbeck: This man wants to bring Steve Bannon to Europe - the AfD should also help. In: Watson , July 28, 2018.
  4. ↑ How Steve Bannon's far-right 'Movement' stalled in Europe - video Guardian November 21, 2018
  5. ↑ Johanne Montay: perquisitions au siège du Parti populaire et chez mischaël modrikamen. RTBF Info, November 14, 2017.
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SURNAME Modrikamen, Mischaël
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Charleroi