Julien Odoul was born in 1985 in
Paris. A
model, he made the cover of the
LGBTQ magazine
Têtu when he was 21 years old, then three years later, was on the cover of the German gentleman's magazine
Gab. Collaborator of the centrist
deputy-
mayor of
Issy-les-Moulineaux,
André Santini, he worked for him until 2011. In 2012, he was a centrist candidate in the
Val-de-Marne's 10th constituency. In 2014, he joined the
National Front. In 2017, Julien Odoul took over as head of the National Rally Group in
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, then joined the party's national office in 2018. In 2019, he made comments during a council meeting along with a demand that a visitor take off her
hijab. The visitor who was chaperoning a school trip was the mother of one of the children. Odoul's demand and remarks was rebuffed by council members with the council president,
Marie-Guite Dufay, pointing out that neither French national law nor the regional council rules prohibited people from wearing veils during meetings.
Member of the Assemblée Nationale As a member of the
National Rally (RN), he has represented the
3rd constituency of the
Yonne department in the
National Assembly since
2022. On campaign in the July
2024 French legislative elections for which he was the official RN spokesman, Odoul said that if the RN formed the government after the vote, they would ban the
hijab in the public square. == References ==