On November 3, there was uproar in the French Parliament when a Black lawmaker from the far left made a question about immigration and a far-right MP yelled “Go back to Africa!”
Soon after the racist remark, on Thursday, there was a big uproar, and the meeting was adjourned.
The centrist administration deemed it “inacceptable.” “In our democratic society, racism has no place. The National Assembly’s Bureau will meet (this Friday) to determine the appropriate sanctions “Reporters were told by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.
The far right claimed that MP Gregoire de Fournas’ reply was directed at the migrants stuck on an NGO boat, not the MP who posed the question, in an effort to “damage control.”
“He obviously spoke about the migrants transported in boats by the NGOs,” Maine Le Pen tweeted. “The controversy created by our political opponents … will not deceive the French,” the tweet further read.
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