‘Time travelling’ French presidential candidate ridiculed for Normandy claims

His Wikipedia
profile was instantly updated to describe him as a “pioneer of time
travel” following his curious D-Day claim.

Internet jesters quickly homed in on the nickname of Morin McFly, after Marty
McFly, the hero of the 1980s time travelling film Back to the Future
starring Michael J Fox.

It spawned a raft of internet parodies. “I was there at the Big Bang, it
was overrated,” wrote one.

“I was in Rouen when Joan of Arc was burned,” claimed a second.

“You should have seen the Trojans’ face when the Greeks came out of that
horse,” said a third.

Faced with the deluge of ridicule, Mr Morin stood by his remark today, saying
it wasn’t a mistake but a semantic “shortcut”.

“It wasn’t a blunder at all but simply a shortcut to something deeply
anchored in the eye of every Norman. It’s our DNA, our genetic code,”
he told RMC radio.

“I was brought up with the white crosses of Canadian and American
soldiers in the (war) cemeteries, of these children who died for our freedom
and thus it’s a part of our common history, that’s all,” he said.

Taking the jokes at his expense on the chin, he wrote on Twitter:
“Well done for your humour! I always said the French were full of
creative talent!”

Mr Morin has little to laugh about from a political perspective, however, as
two key party allies deserted him on Wednesday to come out in support of
Nicolas Sarkozy, the incumbent conservative.

Mr Morin dismissed calls for him to throw in the towel.

“I intend to go all the way,” he said, predicting he would “not
stay on one per cent”.

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