A controversial fund to support the policeman who killed young Nachel in Nanterre a week ago will be closed on Tuesday evening, its initiator Jean Messiha, a far-right activist and former spokesman for Eric Zemmour, said on Twitter, AFP reported.

The account, which has collected 1.5 million euros, will be “closed at midnight tonight,” he said in a video posted on social media.

This GoFundMe fundraiser for the policeman’s family, called a “box of shame” by several left-leaning leaders, has been unexpectedly successful and has sparked a heated debate.

The left criticizes, the right approves

Before Jean Messiha announced its closure, MPs Mathilde Panot (La France insoumise) and Arthur Delaporte (PS) announced they would go to court to have the fund closed.

“This fund can be considered illegal” and “must be closed down,” Arthur Delaporte said, announcing he would refer the case to Paris Attorney General Laure Becquoit.

“There is no doubt about the intentions of the initiator of this fund, which uses the tragedy of Nanterre to establish and promote political ideas that incite hatred,” the Calvados MP wrote to the attorney general.

For her part, Matilda Panot, the leader of LFI deputies in the National Assembly, qualified the fund as an “insult to Nakhel’s relatives.”

“Supporting the family of Nanterre police officer Florian M., who did his job and is now paying a high price,” reads the text accompanying the fund.

Both MPs believe that this could be incitement to hatred and could create “a serious risk of public order disturbance, given the particularly unstable situation in the country”.

The right and far-right, who believe that the police should receive unequivocal support, did not object.

“This is an approach that I hear, that I understand, that does not seem to me to be contrary to our principles. On the contrary, it does not seem shocking to me to support the family of a policeman who is also going through difficult times today,” Eric Ciotti, president of the Les Républicains (LR) party, said on Monday, not ruling out the possibility. make a contribution yourself.

On the part of the government, Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne and her Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanen, assessed that the decision on its legality belongs to the judicial system.

Elizabeth Bourne added on Monday that “the fact that this fundraising campaign was launched by someone close to the far right is certainly not reassuring.”