France Far Right Expels Policeman Member over Racist Remarks
The party said it removed him from its security team after footage showed racist, homophobic and sexist remarks, prompting an investigation.
- On Tuesday, local daily Midi Libre published body-cam footage of a policeman in Carcassonne making racist, homophobic, and sexist remarks, prompting the National Rally to expel the officer from their security detail.
- The footage, recorded in November last year, captured the officer using derogatory terms for people of North African or African descent, complicating the RN's efforts to make the anti-immigration party palatable to the public.
- Denouncing the remarks "in the strongest possible terms," the RN described them as "criminally punishable" and "at odds with the values" of the party, as the Carcassonne prosecutor's office launched an investigation.
- President Emmanuel Macron's equality minister Aurore Berge condemned the comments as "absolutely unacceptable," while former prime minister Gabriel Attal shared the footage, warning of "This is what a France led by the RN would look like."
- Marine Le Pen is running for president next year, while rights group Amnesty International previously warned of "worrying" public racist comments, highlighting challenges to the rule of law.
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France far right expels policeman member over racist remarks
Marine Le Pen, of the National Rally (RN), is eyeing her best chance at the top job after years of seeking to make the anti-immigration party she inherited from her father more palatable to the general public. In the footage dated November last year and published in local daily Midi Libre on Tuesday, the body cam of a policeman in the southern town of Carcassonne captures conversations with colleagues while on duty in which they make racist, hom…
After the revelation by "Free Midi" of the images of a municipal policeman from Carcassonne, a member of the National Rally and his service of order, the party announced his exclusion and the mayor's suspension. A judicial investigation had been opened at the beginning of the year.
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