National Rally (RN) president Jordan Bardella has announced he will file a complaint against French rapper Soli over his music video for the song Un facho K.O (“A fascist knocked out”), over alleged death threats in the video clip and song.
In his video clip the French rapper stages a fight between three young men and three individuals wearing masks of Marine Le Pen, Éric Zemmour and Jordan Bardella.
The three French right-wing politicians are symbolically tied up and beaten on the ground.
“I am obviously filing a complaint for the explicit death threats made in this rap clip by an ‘artist’ lacking notoriety and talent. Political violence must stop. We will no longer let anything slide,” Bardella announced.
The character of Bardella is particularly targeted, lying on a football pitch and receiving a powerful kick to the head.
This practice, known as a “penalty”, was used against French right-wing activist Quentin Deranque during a brawl with a left-wing group in Lyon, east-central France, in February this year.
More than the imagery itself, the lyrics are also very explicit. Though they do not directly threaten Bardella personally, the song speaks more broadly about fascism, racism and the Right in general.
“Kicks to the head of a fucking fascist, what a fine flavour. A good racist is a racist nailed into a coffin,” he raps.
Elsewhere he raps “A good fascist is a dead fascist”, and takes aim at the French right-wing’s international allies, claiming those who call themselves nationalists while backing US President Donald Trump are “collaborators” who would have been “traitors” during the Second World War.
In the music video, the French rapper also tries to reclaim the French national colours. The flags appear throughout the video as symbols of an alternative vision of France rooted in liberty, equality and fraternity rather than nationalism or fascism.
As he puts it: “Long live France, the land of liberty, equality, and fraternity, let’s reclaim this flag instead of leaving it to the fascists.”
The rapper’s comments echo a debate that has also emerged within the French Left itself. La France Insoumise (LFI) left-wing MP Antoine Léaument has argued that the Left should reclaim the symbols of French national identity “rather than abandon them to the right and far right.”
In March 2025, he gave a talk explaining why the reappropriation of the French tricolour flag by the Left is politically important. According to him, “faced with the attempt by the right and far right to appropriate national symbols,” the Left should “defend the idea that these symbols belong to the revolutionary and progressive history of France.”
His argument draws on the historical origins of the French flag itself, which emerged from the French Revolution of 1789 and became associated with the republican ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity.
