Pierre Cassen

Pierre Cassen (born 24 January 1953) is a French writer and the founder of the anti-Islam news portal Riposte Laïque.

Biography Cassen is described as an old Trotskyist and former member of the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), Cassen participated in the international counter-jihad conference in Brussels in 2012. He was part of an initiative to launch Pegida France alongside French writer Renaud Camus, Swiss politician Jean-Luc Addor, Pierre Renversez of the Belgian "No to Islam" and Melanie Dittmer of the German Pegida in 2015. He has been a close associate of Florian Philippot, president of The Patriots party, while supporting Éric Zemmour in the 2022 French presidential election.

He is in a relationship with Christine Tasin, whom he met at the first editorial conference of Riposte Laïque. They have arranged demonstrations together with hundreds of protesters against "Islamisation", Tasin as leader of the closely associated group Republican Resistance.

Publications “Touche pas au plomb !” mémoire des derniers typographes de la presse parisienne (with Isabelle Repiton), 2008, Assises internationales sur l'islamisation de nos pays (with Christine Tasin), 2011, La faute du bobo Jocelyn (with Christine Tasin), 2011, Apéro saucisson-pinard: coulisses et enjeux d'un rassemblement qui a secoué la France (with Christine Tasin and Fabrice Robert), 2012, Le guignol de l'Élysée, 2014, Et la gauche devint la putain de l'Islam, 2018, 2022 Zemmour aura le dernier mot (with Jacques Guillemain), 2021, Transgression: Voyages du camp du « bien » vers le camp du « mal » (with Bernard Germain), 2023,