US EditionThousands Rally Against Racism in Paris Suburb to Defend Mayor
The mayor filed a complaint as prosecutors opened a racist-insults inquiry and thousands marched with music groups, unions and associations.
- Several thousand people marched through Saint-Denis on Saturday to denounce racism after the town's newly elected mayor, Bally Bagayoko, faced racist disinformation and disparaging remarks on national television.
- Elected on March 15, Bally Bagayoko, The Frenchman of Malian descent, joined the France Unbowed party and faced immediate racist attacks aired on CNews, often described as France's Fox News.
- Music bands, trade unions, and LFI leader Jean-Luc Melenchon joined demonstrators at the Saint-Denis town hall. Bagayoko declared a "visceral attachment to the values of the Republic" during the protest.
- Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu denounced the "normalisation of evil and racism" this week. Government minister Aurore Berge did not attend, prompting Bagayoko to ask, "If there is one minister who should have been there, it is her."
- Paris prosecutors opened an investigation on Thursday into possible public insults of a racist nature broadcast on CNews. Bagayoko filed a legal complaint against the channel, and authorities initiated a separate investigation into racist abuse on social media.
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Bally Bagayoko is the new mayor of Saint-Denis. Since his election, the politician has been attacked racistally. The prosecutor's office is already investigating alleged cyberbullying – and against a French TV station.
In Saint-Denis, Several Thousand People Gather Against Racism and in Support of Mayor Bally Bagayoko
Target of a hate campaign since his election, Bally Bagayoko, Mayor LFI of Saint-Denis, gathered on Saturday several thousand people and a large part of the left to denounce racism. The government was absent "We want a lot of black mayors against the brown plague." Several thousands of people were gathered against racism on Saturday in Saint-Denis, at the call of the new mayor LFI Bally Bagayoko who crystallises since his election a national deb…
The rally against racism in Saint-Denis - Saint-Denis: thousands of people gathered against racism at the call of Mayor Bally Bagayoko (Politics).
Some 20,000 people joined the rally before the City of Saint-Denis, including the leader of La Francia Insumisa, Jean-Luc Mélénchon The Islamophobic shouts, an escalation in the racism of Spanish football that provokes criticisms against the Federation Thousands of people have demonstrated this Saturday in Saint-Denis, on the Paris periphery, to protest against racism and in support of the new mayor of that town, leftist Bally Bagayoko, who has …
Several thousands of people have demonstrated their Saturday against racism in Saint-Denis, near Paris, at the call of the new prime minister, Bally Baggioko, whose election triggered a national debate on racial discrimination, informs AFP, according to Agerpres. A large number of people have shown concern in front of the first suburban, the second most popular in the Parisian region after the capital. At ...
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