US EditionThousands Rally Against Racism in Paris Suburb to Defend Mayor
About 20,000 people joined the march, organizers said, after Paris prosecutors opened investigations into racist insults and comments aimed at Bally Bagayoko.
- 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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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 denounced racist comments against him on television.The rally before the City of Saint-Denis has been joined, according to the organizers to the local press, by some 20,000 people, including left-wing politicians such as Jean-Luc Mélenchon, founder of t…
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