PARIS: When a Green party activist was headbutted in the street, his attackers told him there was more to come when the far right's Jordan Bardella wins France's parliamentary election. A
Hours after Bardella's National Rally party scored big in the, four men in Paris assaulted a teenager at whom they hurled homophobic and transphobic slurs.
Opinion polls project the RN will emerge as the dominant political power after the two rounds on Sunday and Jul 7, winning support from French people who say President Emmanuel Macron's centre-right party has ignored their concerns about the rising cost of living and weaker public services. Michael Colborne, researcher for Bellingcat on transnational far-right networks, said that if the RN was to take power, young men could feel empowered to 'take matters into their own hands'."
Anti-racism campaigner Saphia Ait Ouarabi said she had in the past weeks been on the receiving end of racial abuse online. The rights group Inter-LGBT also said it had observed a spike in reports of hate speech and violence.
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