Pro-Russian media personality Charles d’Anjou identified as founder of 'Omerta' news site promoting Kremlin narratives

French reporting identified Charles d'Anjou, a French businessman based in Moscow, as the financier and owner behind the online and print outlet Omerta, launched in Paris on 16 November 2022. D'Anjou is sole shareholder and president of Nordman Medias, the company that holds Omerta, and is reported to have invested roughly one million euros in the project. Omerta's publication is directed by Régis Le Sommier, a former Paris Match reporter who had previously worked for the Russian state broadcaster RT France, and the outlet emerged in the months after RT France was taken off air following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Omerta presents itself as a vehicle for investigation and 'reinformation,' but its coverage centres on themes associated with the French far right, including immigration, 'wokism,' insecurity and gender issues, alongside reporting on the Ukraine war that favours the Russian perspective. Journalists describe it as a far-right outlet with russophile leanings that relays Kremlin-aligned framings, such as the supposed threat posed by NATO. Its launch event drew far-right and identitarian figures. D'Anjou has been reported to have worked for a security firm run by a former FSB colonel and to have acted as a fixer in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine for French-language media.

Reputable French reporting consistently presents Omerta as a domestic far-right 'reinformation' outlet whose editorial line aligns with Kremlin narratives on Ukraine and broader geopolitics, financed and owned by a French businessman embedded in Moscow business and security circles. The pattern fits a wider ecosystem of pro-Russian messaging in France that gained prominence after RT France's removal. Open sources establish ownership, funding by d'Anjou and assessed pro-Moscow alignment, but do not document direct Russian state funding of the outlet, so a state-financing link remains unproven rather than established.