Karim Ouchikh

Karim Ouchikh
Vice President of the National Council of European Resistance
Assumed office
2017
President Renaud Camus
Personal details
Born (1965-03-13) 13 March 1965
Saint-Maurice, France
Nationality French
Political party Sovereignty, Identity and Freedoms (SIEL) (2011 - present)
Other political
affiliations

Socialist Party (1995–2005)
Rassemblement for the Independence and Sovereignty of France (RIF)

(2008–2011)
Profession Lawyer

Karim Ouchikh (born March 13, 1965 in Saint-Maurice) is a French politician.

Elected Vice-President of the RIF in 2008, he participated in 2011 in the foundation of the SIEL, of which he is the president since 2014. Ouchikh is a prominent Roman Catholic convert from Islam in France.

Biography

Origins

Of Algerian origin (Kabylie), Karim Ouchikh was born into a modest family that had settled in France in the 1960s. His father is a miller and his mother a housekeeper. He grew up on a housing estate in the suburbs of Gonesse.

In 1990, he registered in the Bar Association[1] and was one of the lawyers defending the victims of the Concorde accident in Gonesse in 2000.[2]

First steps on the left

In 1995, Ouchikh joined the Socialist Party and became a member of the municipal government of deputy mayor Jean-Pierre Blazy. However, Ouchikh disagreed with the left on European and social questions, and he left the SP in the mid-2000s[3] after sustained at the 2005 congress the motion for a left alternative.[4]

Evolution to the right

In 2008, Ouchikh joined the Rassemblement for the Independence and Sovereignty of France (RIF), of which he became vice-president, and participated in the creation of the party Sovereignty, Identity and Freedoms in 2011.[5] After the resignation of Paul-Marie Coûteaux in 2014, he was elected acting president of the SIEL. Finally, on October 25, a new Congress elected him President.[6] He is a director of the Rassemblement bleu Marine[7] and a cultural advisor to the president of Front National.[8]

Regarding the presidential election of 2017, Ouchikh "supports the candidacy of Marine Le Pen while watching with kindness Renaud Camus",[9] and also supported Jean-Frédéric Poisson, president of the Christian Democratic Party, in the Republican presidential primary.[10]

However, denouncing "the hegemonic will of Florian Philippot", the SIEL ended its alliance with the FN in the Rassemblement bleu Marine in November 2016.[11][12]

He is also a councillor and agglomeration of Gonesse and a regional councillor of Île-de-France.[13]

The administrative court of Cergy-Pontoise invalidated his municipal campaign accounts on October 27, 2014 for late justification of certain invoices. The State Council invalidated the decision in December 2016, allowing the reimbursement of his campaign expenses.[14]

In 2017, Ouchikh was a candidate in the ninth district of Val-d'Oise.[15] He finished 13th with 0.68% of the votes.[16]

Religious beliefs

A member of a poor Muslim family, Ouchikh converted to Catholicism[17][18] during the pontificate of Pope John Paul II, after being touched by the faith of the participants in World Youth Day in 1997. Baptized by Father Philippe Dorizon, he received confirmation from Mgr Jean-Yves Riocreux.[19][20] He claims to have acquired during his catechumen "an indispensable spiritual teaching" but also to have discovered "a Christian civilization[21] of which [he] did not suspect until very recently the infinite wealth of".

In September 2016, he founded the SOS Churches of France association, intended to fight for the defense of the Christian heritage of France.[22]

References

  1. ↑ "Actes-Types.com Mobile - OUCHIKH Karim - Avocat". mobile.actes-types.com (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  2. ↑ [ "Vincent Nouzille, The unspoken disaster", The Express, July 19, 2001]
  3. ↑ "Numéros PDF : Numéro 921 - Format PDF". www.monde-vie.com (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  4. ↑ "Souveraineté, Identité et Libertés (SIEL) — France Politique". www.france-politique.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  5. ↑ "Karim Ouchikh : Ancien socialiste, je pense que Marine Le Pen est la seule qui puisse encore sauver la France". Riposte Laïque (in French). 2012-03-19. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  6. ↑ "Extrême-droite : nouveau président pour le SIEL, parti satellite du FN". RTL.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  7. ↑ Larquier, Ségolène de (2015-10-07). "Ces musulmans séduits par le FN". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  8. ↑ "Qu'est-ce que le SIEL, le parti d'extrême droite de la nouvelle secrétaire nationale de l'UMP ?". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  9. ↑ Ouchikh, Karim. "SIEL - Souveraineté, Identité Et Libertés - Communiqué du SIEL sur la candidature de Renaud Camus aux élections présidentielles de 2017" (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  10. ↑ Salvi, Ellen. "Avec Poisson, l'extrême droite s'incruste dans la primaire de la droite". Mediapart (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  11. ↑ "Le Siel met fin à son alliance avec le Front national". LExpress.fr (in French). 2016-11-06. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  12. ↑ "Politique. Le Siel met fin à son alliance avec le FN". Ouest-France.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  13. ↑ "Gonesse : le compte de campagne de Karim Ouchikh devant le Conseil d'Etat". Comptes publics (in French). 2016-12-15. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  14. ↑ "Gonesse : Karim Ouchikh sera bien remboursé de ses frais de campagne des municipales". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  15. ↑ interieur.gouv.fr
  16. ↑ [ http://www.lemonde.fr/data/9eme-circonscription-du-val-d-oise-09509/elections/legislatives-2017/ lemonde.fr]
  17. ↑ [ https://visegradpost.com/en/2017/03/25/karim-ouchikh-the-identitarian-renewal-of-the-european-ideal-will-come-from-central-europe/ visegradpost.com]
  18. ↑ "Karim Ouchikh : « la prééminence culturelle et historique du christianisme doit être affirmée sans état d'âme »". Le Rouge & le Noir (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  19. ↑ "Karim Ouchikh témoigne de sa conversion". Le Salon Beige (in French). 2016-03-22. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  20. ↑ Boulogne, Edouard. "Karim Ouchikh évoque sa conversion au catholicisme, ou le diocèse de Guadeloupe n'est pas totalement étranger. - Le Scrutateur". Le Scrutateur. (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  21. ↑ "Karim Ouchikh : « le culte catholique est victime d'un mépris latent de la part de nos élites. » | Christianophobie Hebdo". www.christianophobiehebdo.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  22. ↑ present.fr
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