{"id":89836,"date":"2024-07-07T23:26:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T23:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/07\/frances-campaign-season-was-marred-by-racist-attacks-and-violent-acts\/"},"modified":"2024-07-07T23:26:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T23:26:18","slug":"frances-campaign-season-was-marred-by-racist-attacks-and-violent-acts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/07\/frances-campaign-season-was-marred-by-racist-attacks-and-violent-acts\/","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s Campaign Season Was Marred by Racist Attacks and Violent Acts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/07\/07\/multimedia\/07france-blog-racism-glhz\/07france-blog-racism-glhz-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"France\u2019s Campaign Season Was Marred by Racist Attacks and Violent Acts\" title=\"France\u2019s Campaign Season Was Marred by Racist Attacks and Violent Acts\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The French election campaign was swift and tense. It was also marred by racist episodes and acts of violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The far-right National Rally has railed against immigration, which its leader, Marine Le Pen, has said has diluted what it means to be French. The left-wing coalition, which appeared to have captured the most parliamentary seats, according to projections released Sunday, includes the firebrand <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/20\/world\/europe\/french-election-antisemitism-jews.html\" title=\"\">Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon, who has been accused of fanning antisemitism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">G\u00e9rald Darmanin, France\u2019s interior minister, said on Friday that more than 50 people \u2014 including candidates, their substitutes or supporters \u2014 had been \u201cphysically assaulted\u201d during the campaign. One of them was Prisca Thevenot, the government spokeswoman, who was putting up campaign posters in her constituency just outside Paris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Stories of racist attacks have circulated widely online and in the media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One television news program <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cijizBNey5A\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">filmed a couple who supported the National Rally hurling insults at a Black neighbor<\/a>, telling her to \u201cgo to the doghouse.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A television host of North African descent <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brut.media\/fr\/news\/le-journaliste-karim-rissouli-raconte-la-lettre-raciste-recue-chez-lui-9c097434-eff3-4928-8294-3dbeee5b160a\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">revealed<\/a> a racist letter he had received at his home. A <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr\/provence-alpes-cote-d-azur\/vaucluse\/avignon\/des-tags-racistes-decouverts-sur-les-murs-d-une-boulangerie-incendiee-2994293.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">bakery in Avignon<\/a> was set on fire and covered in homophobic and racist tags.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since the snap election campaign began last month, Fatma Bouvet de la Maisonneuve, a psychiatrist who has a practice in the Parisian suburb of Montrouge, said she had been overwhelmed by new clients, with as many as two calling a day and some even arriving unannounced to her office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThese are people who are very scared,\u201d said Ms. Bouvet de la Maisonneuve, whose practice specializes in the effects of racism on mental health. \u201cThey are scared for their children. They are worried about being attacked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She said that her clients with dual citizenship were frightened by the policies of the far-right National Rally. The party has announced that, if elected, it would limit people with dual passports from holding positions considered sensitive, like running the secret service or a power plant. (The early projections on Sunday indicated that the National Rally would fall short of expectations.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey are fearful for their jobs,\u201d said Ms. Bouvet de la Maisonneuve, who is French Tunisian. \u201cThe civil servants are very scared that the law will be hardened and applied across the spectrum.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/07\/world\/europe\/france-election-racism-violence.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French election campaign was swift and tense. It was also marred by racist episodes and acts of violence. The far-right National Rally has railed against immigration, which its leader, Marine Le Pen, has said has diluted what it means to be French. The left-wing coalition, which appeared to have captured the most parliamentary seats, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/07\/07\/multimedia\/07france-blog-racism-glhz\/07france-blog-racism-glhz-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31508,1179,2243,5238,16798,4449,8876,1390],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89838,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89836\/revisions\/89838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}