Pierre Bernard is the founder of the far-right NGO France Debout, over which he presided until 2004.
joined the Centre Charlier, headed by the former National Front MEP Bernard Antony and president of AGRIF.
In 1988, Pierre Bernard prohibited the registering of the children of immigrants to kindergarten and to school meals, leading twice to condemnation for racial discrimination in 1988 and 1991.
He took as lawyer Jacques Trémollet de Villers, president of the La Cité Catholique fundamentalist group.
He was again condemned for hate speech in 2002, by virtue of the Gayssot Act,[1] and relaxed[clarification needed] in September 2005 for another racial discrimination charge.