French mayors face violence and intimidation from xenophobic far-right groups
LA TimesA woman walks down a street in the village of Callac, France, where Mayor Jean-Yves Rolland in December gave up on his plan to house seven to 10 refugee families, bending to far-right opposition. While there is no tradition of suspicion of a “deep state” in France, Reconquête’s founder, Eric Zemmour, has emulated former President Trump in taking aim at elites and predicting the collapse of French society. Trouble in Callac The far right claimed victory in January 2023, when Mayor Jean-Yves Rolland of Callac gave up his plan to house seven to 10 refugee families in his town in Brittany, in northwest France. “To use methods like that, what happened in Callac, it’s unacceptable.” French mayors faced another brief challenge last year: six nights of nationwide rioting over the police killing of a 17-year-old with North African roots. The farmers are the embodiment of “la France profonde,” the very essence of what makes France French, that the far right claims to represent.
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