A far-left French presidential candidate has called for the removal and imprisonment of a military chaplain from his role after a video surfaced of the priest stating that “leftists” should calm down. The chaplain, who has not been officially named, was speaking in a homily to the 3rd Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment of Carcassonne on October 7, 2025.
Speaking at Carcassonne’s Saint-Michel Cathedral, the priest urged the soldiers to “have courage” and criticised the French establishment as being “incompetent”. The video appears to have been recorded clandestinely without the priest’s knowledge.
