Julien Odoul Leaves BFMTV After Verbal Attack on the RN: ‘I Want You to Be a Dead Party’

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The moment was brief, the escalation unmistakable: Sofia Tizaoui said of the National Rally that she wanted to fight it because she wished the party would become “a dead people”. In the German version of the publicly circulating account, this became: “I want you to be a dead party.” Julien Odoul responded with a brief “Pardon?”, stood up and left the stage.

What had begun as a dispute over the political conduct of the MPs had become a personal attack on the survival of the entire National Rally. The reaction of those present made clear that the remark was not simply regarded as ordinary polemic.

October 29: One Remark Sends Odoul Walking Out

The start of the debate

Tizaoui opened her attack with an accusation against the RN’s MPs: At the National Assembly, they had saved none of the measures that benefit ordinary people. She also criticized their speeches, which, according to her account, placated nothing.

As evidence, she cited Jordan Bardella’s remarks from 2021, when he compared Trappes to a “miniature Islamic State republic.” The comparison gained additional weight because of a recent incident: On Friday, October 23, Pengo Bossio Wangi, 26, was killed in an attack in Trappes and La Verrière in the Yvelines department. The Paris prosecutor’s office for counterterrorism took over the investigation.

Odoul’s response

When Odoul replied to Tizaoui, he asked only: “But what hatred?” Tizaoui reacted angrily and recalled the murder: “There was a murder.” According to her account, those words were shameless. Odoul countered: “You look at me with hatred in your eyes.”

Tizaoui did not shy away from the accusation. She said openly: “Of course I have hatred.” Odoul then described part of this young woman as “filled with hatred”, with the aim of “fighting” her.

The escalation

At precisely this point, the debate shifted from a political disagreement over policy to a personal attack. Tizaoui said she felt like taking on the National Rally because she wanted the party to be “dead”.

“I want you to be a dead party.”

Odoul then stood up. As he left the studio, he said that his three-year-old son had been threatened with death by people like those in question. Tizaoui replied that she herself might never have been threatened. With the words “I leave him to you”, Odoul handed the situation over to Sonia Mabrouk.

The host tried to get Tizaoui to explain herself. She repeatedly urged Odoul to stay and said, in essence, that he should remain for political and symbolic reasons. Tizaoui declared, however, that people who stoke hatred and violence in this country have no place on talk-show stages. Mabrouk countered that she was neither the editor-in-chief nor the arbiter of grace on a television stage.

‘Political Death’ Rather Than an Attack on Odoul

What Tizaoui later clarified

Tizaoui eventually admitted that by her wording she had meant “political death”. Her statement was therefore not a rejection of Odoul as a person. It continued to target the RN’s political survival as a party.

Rokhaya Diallo, also a guest, defended Tizaoui, pointing out that the activist was speaking “within her political ideal.” At the same time, she called the word used “unfortunate” and stressed that Tizaoui had not had any one individual in mind as her target.

Ultimately, two interpretations remained side by side: Tizaoui characterized her statement as the political destruction of a party. Although Mabrouk and Diallo denied that she had meant to target Odoul personally, they criticized the wording as inappropriate. The exit had already taken place, and the audience had witnessed the sharpest part of the dispute live.

Why the Show Did Not Simply Carry On

Mabrouk’s attempt to calm the debate

After Odoul left, Mabrouk tried to salvage the situation. She recalled that some personalities exert pressure all the way to their families, “and we know something about that.” When Tizaoui brought in Éric Zemmour’s convictions, Mabrouk countered that Zemmour had not been sitting beside her that Thursday evening.

The host thus tried to separate Tizaoui’s reference to another political figure from Odoul. Tizaoui and Diallo argued instead that the discussion was part of the young activist’s political idealism.

The political context

The incident did not take place in a neutral talk-show format. Odoul had already come under pressure on BFMTV’s program after a forum on the show’s teenage anger saw him question a student from the Simone-Weil lycée about segregation. Public therefore placed Thursday’s program in a series of appearances in which the MP repeatedly became embroiled in confrontation.

Two weeks later, it was a former lycée union representative who ultimately prompted him to stand up. The specific sequence shows how a dispute over Bardella’s speech about public safety became a personal conflict in which the RN’s future as a political party was turned into a weapon.

What the Evening Actually Establishes

The three confirmed facts

Odoul left “100% Mabrouk” on October 29, 2026, during the live broadcast. Tizaoui said she wanted the National Rally to become a “dead party”. She later explained that she had meant “political death” by this.

Little more can be reliably inferred from the reported sequence. Public describes Odoul standing up and the shocked tone of the scene, but does not provide a complete verbatim transcript. Nor is there detailed reporting on the further studio conversation after Odoul’s departure or on whether the entire program was brought to a different conclusion.

My interpretation

The strongest interpretation comes not from the headline, but from the sequence itself. Tizaoui’s accusation still had a concrete reference: She criticized RN MPs for, according to her account, failing to save any measures for the population and for delivering no reassurance in their speeches. Only when Odoul countered with “what hatred?” did she move from criticism of political action to the existential formula about the end of an entire party.

This explains why the scene was more than a heated exchange. Tizaoui offered a political interpretation that she later clarified herself. Odoul reacted emotionally and left instead of answering with another substantive argument. For viewers, the evening shows how quickly words spoken live can transform a debate — especially when a personal accusation coincides with a concrete threat against the conversation partner’s family.