Macron's office initially denies authenticity of video showing French president's manhandling by his geriatric wife



Video went viral early Monday appearing to show 72-year-old Brigitte Macron manhandling her former student and now husband, French President Emmanuel Macron, just before they deplaned in Hanoi, Vietnam. The president's office initially denied the video's authenticity.

The footage has not only prompted an evolving explanation from the French president but also debate online both over what qualifies as abuse and over the nature of the Macrons' controversial relationship.

In the video, captured by the Associated Press, the 47-year-old president can be seen in the open doorway of the landed plane speaking to his wife. Mrs. Macron seemingly throws her hands into the president's face, impressing upon him a momentary look of shock. Realizing he is in full view of the public below, Mr. Macron smiles, steadies himself, and waves.

After getting his bearings, Mr. Macron turns to exit the plane, offering his elderly wife his arm. She elects instead to rely on the railing, then descends the stairs beside her husband.

'It was a moment of togetherness.'

Macron's office initially denied the authenticity of the images, but when it became clear that denial was a losing strategy, Mr. Macron told reporters that the altercation was all in fun, reported Le Monde.

"My wife and I were squabbling, we were rather joking, and I was taken by surprise,," said Mr. Macron, adding that the physicality was overblown and it has now "become a kind of planetary catastrophe, and some are even coming up with theories."

He suggested further that this was the latest of a number of videos that have been misinterpreted online.

"For three weeks ... there are people who have watched videos and think I shared a bag of cocaine, that I had a fight with the Turkish president, and that now I'm having a domestic dispute with my wife," said Macron. "None of these are true."

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One of the videos to which Mr. Macron was likely referring showed him tucking away a white object while seated next to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz while en route to Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 9. Critics concluded that the white object was a bag of cocaine. French officials suggested it was just a crumpled tissue.

Macron's office said of the incident on the plane in a statement obtained by CNN, "It was a moment when the president and his wife were unwinding one last time before the trip began, playfully teasing each other. It was a moment of togetherness."

'He preferred to spend his time talking with the teachers.'

Even though Mr. Macron and his office ultimately confirmed that the footage was genuine, CNN still insinuated it was being misinterpreted for the purposes of "disinformation."

Some critics online discussed whether the incident was indicative of a toxic or abusive relationship.

Normalcy advocate Robby Starbuck, for instance, suggested that "if you're in a relationship where someone puts hands on you, LEAVE. It's not normal and there's no excuse for it. People who love and respect you don't hit you."

Other critics suggested the incident might be just the latest insight into a relationship that started in 1993 when then-Brigitte Auziere, a 39-year-old high school teacher, fell for a 15-year-old boy who was a classmate of her daughter Laurence. Auziere supervised the drama club the boy was a member of.

Mr. Macron's former sports teacher told Bloomberg, "At 15, Macron had the maturity of a 25-year-old," adding, "He preferred to spend his time talking with the teachers rather than his classmates."

Mrs. Macron's family discovered her affair with the minor in 1994, prompting disgust and fury.

The age of consent in France is 15.

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Is Europe close to being conquered? These statistics paint a harrowing picture



When it comes to progressivism, Europe is just a few steps ahead of the United States. While there are many insidious policies contributing to its decline, such as the criminalization of hate speech, its immigration policies are the most outwardly destructive. Several European countries have opened their borders and allowed in millions of immigrants, many of whom hate Western values and the Westerners who live by them.

France specifically is going downhill at such a rate that in many ways, it’s beginning to look like a conquered nation.

Glenn Beck lists some terrifying statistics.

 

  • “Over 260 French citizens have been killed in terrorist attacks since 2012.”
  • “There were almost 1,000 anti-Christian hate crimes in France in [2023] alone.”
  • “Earlier this year, a cemetery in Southwest France was vandalized with graffiti written in French and Arabic. The messages included ‘Submit to Allah’ and ‘France is already Allaha’s.”’
  • “In May at a church in Western France, benches were set on fire and a statue of Mary was beheaded.”
  • “Last week in a town in Northern France, an arsonist burned down another church. This one was built in the 1800s.”
  • “In 2021 the president of the Paris-based Observatory of Religious Heritage reported that a church is destroyed in France every two weeks, with two-thirds of them caused by arson,” but “a new mosque is built every 15 days in France.”

Given that there are roughly 6.7 million Muslims in France, which is “about 10% of the French population,” something must be done about these alarming figures.

Luckily, President Macron has a plan. Unfortunately, it’s a terrible one.

“The centerpiece of Macron’s proposal is to certify and train imams in France. The proposed measure also included offering Arabic instruction in public schools, tightening control on private religious education, limiting homeschooling, and cracking down on speech or activities that contradict so-called Republican values such as gender-segregated hours at municipal swimming pools,” Glenn reads from Foreign Policy.

“The Muslims are going to line up for the government teaching … and everything’s going to change,” he says sarcastically.

Unfortunately, it’s not just France that’s spiraling toward disaster. It’s Europe as a whole.

From a Qatar charity that funds mosque-building in Europe and the conversion of churches into restaurants, gyms, and nightclubs to the catch-and-release policies that are putting illegal immigrant criminals back on the streets, Europe is looking more like a conquered continent with each day that passes.

To learn more, watch the clip above.

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Leftists bereft after Le Pen's National Rally once again trounces Macron's establishment party



Early last month, establishmentarians were utterly humiliated in the European parliamentary elections where right-leaning parties enjoyed significant gains. One of the most telling showings was in France, where Marine Le Pen's National Rally ran circles around French President Emmanuel Macron's pro-European Renaissance Party, more than doubling its votes.

The continental trouncing was so embarrassing as to prompt Macron, who already lacked a majority in the French parliament, to call snap national elections on June 30 and July 7.

Macron tweeted, "I have confidence in the ability of the French people to make the fairest choice for themselves and for future generations."

On Sunday, the supermajority of eligible French voters cast ballots, fairly choosing to rid the country of Macron and his ilk.

Le Pen's National Rally and its allies reportedly secured 33.1% of the vote Sunday. Macron's centrist coalition couldn't even place second, instead coming third with 20.8% after the New Popular Front, a leftist coalition, which secured 28% of the vote.

'Democracy has spoken.'

CNN indicated that National Rally is poised to secure the most seats in the National Assembly but may prove unable to net the 289 seats necessary for an absolute majority, meaning the country may end up with a hung parliament. Le Pen's party and its allies are currently expected to pick between 230 and 280 seats.

However, should the right-leaning party prevail in the second round of voting on Sunday, National Rally President Jordan Bardella, Le Pen's protégé, will likely become the next prime minister. With Bardella running parliament, Macron would effectively be a lame duck until the end of his term, which runs out in 2027.

Bardella indicated Monday that the country has before it the decision between national unity, the well-being of the republic, and the furtherance of its values, or rule by an "alliance of the worst and the extreme left."

Le Pen told a crowd Sunday, "Democracy has spoken, and the French people have placed the National Rally and its allies in first place — and has practically erased the Macronist bloc."

Le Pen and Bardella both stressed that the next round of voting is critically important for the fate and future of the country.

Liberals further afield bemoaned the result. Donald Tusk, Poland's prime minister, for instance, said, "This is all really starting to smell dangerous."

Tusk added on X, "They love Putin, money and power without control. And they are already in power or are reaching for it in the East or West of Europe. They are joining ranks in the European Parliament."

Spain's socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez similarly whined about the success of French rightists, noting, "The advance of the far right in France isn't unconnected with what's happening in other parts of the world — including in Spain — where we're seeing how, directly or indirectly," reported Al Jazeera.

"The far right is advancing institutionally and in the opinion polls," added Sanchez.

The mainstream media leaned into the tired and ineffective suggestion that France's right-leaning populists were Nazis reborn.

France24 concern-mongered that the elections "could put France's government in the hands of a far-right party for the first time since World War II," discounting the Nazis' leftist nature.

The liberal publication beat this dead horse repeatedly, reiterating, "Victory for RN would lead to France's first far-right government since the Nazi-allied Vichy Regime."

NBC News similarly amplified the preferred narrative, noting, "Voters across France are casting ballots in the first round of an exceptional parliamentary election that could put France’s government in the hands of nationalist, far-right parties for the first time since the Nazi era."

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suggested that the establishment's smear campaign against right-leaning politicians in Europe had once again proven toothless.

"The constant attempt to demonize and corner people who don't vote for the left ... is a trick that fewer and fewer people fall far," said Meloni.

While the media fruitlessly vilified the people's top choice of party, Macron planted the seed of violence, suggesting that electoral success on the part of National Rally could push "people towards a civil war."

Sure enough, after it became clear the party critical of unchecked immigration, a detached political elite, and ruinous economic policies was set to win, radicals — including Pro-Hamas demonstrators and Antifa thugs — began rioting. The Daily Mail reported that riot police were dispatched across Paris, where rioters launched incendiary devices, looted, and smashed up various establishments.

After a night of their comrades clashing with police, far-left politicians began urging Macron's supporters to support them to prevent National Rally from securing power.

Clémentine Autain, a member of the New Popular Front, said in an X post Monday, "The far right is at the gates of power. We must do everything to prevent them from winning and to open up hope with the New Popular Front."

The Telegraph indicated that Gabriel Attal, Macron's prime minister, has advised his party's supporters to support the radical left if the alternative was Le Pen's National Rally, stressing they had a moral duty to "prevent RN from winning an absolute majority."

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Leftists CRUSHED in European Elections | What You NEED to Know
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Leftists CRUSHED in European Elections | What You NEED to Know

 

What Europe’s REJECTION of globalism means for the rest of the world



The mainstream media would have you believe right-wing, Hitler-esque extremists won in the recent European Parliament elections, but hopefully you know by now not to trust a word they say.

According to journalist Alex Newman — who spent a decade working in several different European countries — the truth is that the election results reflect some very positive news: There is a growing rejection of globalism occurring in Europe.

“We have a fake narrative from the fake media,” he told Glenn Beck. “Europeans, I think, like Americans, are tired of the globalism; they're tired of the mass migration; they're tired of the economic suffering because of the inflation and the climate policies and the war on farmers, and all the rest. And they want something different.”

Further, France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, dissolved the lower house of France’s Parliament after the election.

“After the election results, his party was absolutely crushed. … The result was devastating for his globalist establishment political party,” Newman explains, adding that “the party that won by a massive margin … is basically the antithesis of Macron’s party” in that “they're very strong French nationalists” who “want to preserve French identity.”

“They want to do deportations; they want to remove criminals and illegal aliens out of France. In some ways you might call them anti-islamic. They are opposed to what they call the Islamization of France.”

While there’s still much to be determined, “this could lead to some very, very profound changes in the way France is governed, and that by extension then would lead to some profound shifts across Europe,” says Newman.

While Glenn is encouraged by the news, he can’t help but wonder about the upcoming United Nations annual meeting, which is still very intent on pushing a global agenda, as “transforming global governance” is on the itinerary for the event.

“They're giving the United Nations extra powers that can be enacted in emergencies, and so they're getting around the sovereignty by saying, ‘oh this would only happen in a global emergency,’ but we all know emergencies are always right around the corner,” Glenn tells Newman.

Newman, who will actually attend the event and report his findings, thinks of the meeting as an “attempted constitutional convention.”

“They want to throw off the shackles that have kind of restrained their power-grabs over the decades and usurp vast new powers,” he explains. “And that's not speculation.”

To learn more about how the elites plan to ensure their plan for globalism endures, watch the clip below.


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Confused Biden Says He’s Recently Spoken With Yet Another Dead European Leader

Concerns about Biden's mental and physical fitness have continued to rise

Biden's anecdote about recent conversation with long-dead Frenchman feeds concern about his decrepitude



President Joe Biden managed to get a country, a name, and an era wrong all in one anecdote during a campaign event Sunday in Las Vegas, renewing concerns about his glaring decrepitude.

Speaking to a crowd of hospitality workers at the Pearson Community Center, Biden attempted to bring a rambling speech to a close with a denunciation of "MAGA Republicans," the suggestion that a failure to choose him in the general election might mean democracy's demise, and a personal anecdote.

"Look, Trump and his MAGA friends are dividing us, not uniting us; dragging us back to the past, not leading us to the future," said the 81-year-old Democrat.

After framing Republicans as the remaining obstacle to a brave new world, Biden dragged his audience back to an uncertain past, noting, "You know, right, right, right after I was elected, I went to what they call a G7 meeting. All the NATO leaders. And it was in — it was in the south of England. And I sat down and I said, 'America is back.'"

The 47th G7 Summit in Cornwall, England, was held just months before Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.

"And Mitterrand, from Germany — I mean, from France, looked at me and said — said, 'You know, what — why — how long you back for?'" continued Biden, prompting nervous laughter from the audience.

"And I looked at him, and the — and the chancellor of Germany said, 'What would you say, Mr. President, if you picked up the paper tomorrow in the London Times, and London Times said, 'A thousand people break through the House of Commons, break down the doors, two bobbies are killed in order to stop the election of the prime minister. What would you say?'" said Biden.

Biden added, "And I never thought about it from that perspective. What would we say that happened in another democracy around the world? Well, the whole world watched — the whole world watched. And what's going on?"

The major issue with Biden's story was not that he misstated, corrected, then once again misstated François Mitterrand's nationality. The issue is that Mitterrand has been dead for 28 years.

Mitterrand was president of France, not the chancellor of Germany, from 1981 to 1995. He died on Jan. 8, 1996.

The White House indicated in the transcript for Biden's speech that by "Mitterrand," the geriatric president actually meant to say "Macron," as in Emmanuel Macron, the current president of France.

 
Biden tells crowd he recently met with Mitterrand, former French president who died in 1996.\n\n"Right after I was elected I went to a G7 meeting. I sat down and said, 'America is back!' and Mitterand from Germany -- I mean France, looked at me and said, 'how long you back for?'"
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Macron's is hardly the first name Biden has confused in recent years.

Prior to his election in 2020, Biden mistook his sister for his wife. On multiple occasions since, he has confused the names of various nations. In one instance last year, he confused Ukraine and Iraq twice in 24 hours.

Even when the right name is on his tongue, Biden often has trouble getting it out.

Within minutes of announcing a $40 billion investment in the Pacific Islands Infrastructure Initiative, which in fact was a $40 million dollar investment, Biden attempted in a September speech to tell the crowd what his team calls the initiative.

"We call it the PG, PI — anyway," said Biden, giving up on the remaining letters in the acronym. "It doesn't matter what we call it, but that's what it is."

Mitterrand is also not the first dead person Biden has apparently spoken to.

One month after eulogizing Indiana Rep. Jackie Walorski, who died in 2022, Biden called out to her during a speech in Washington, saying, "Representative Jackie — are you here? Where's Jackie? — I think she was going to be here."

Biden has also repeatedly told the apocryphal story of his conversation with an Amtrak conductor named Angelo Negri — a conversation that apparently took place a year after Negri died and over 20 years after the conductor's retirement.

Following Biden's latest blunder in Vegas, critics online questioned the president's remaining faculties.

Graham Allen of the "Dear America" podcast wrote, "This is not a healthy sign."

Another user on X wrote, "This is what perfectly healthy people do everybody, nothing to see here!"

The latest NBC News poll shows that 76% of voters, including a great many Democrats, are deeply concerned over Biden's age. After all, in addition to flubbing names, repeating himself, tripping over nothing, and relying on cue cards for instructions on how to execute basic functions, he continues to pad his record of days spent on vacation.

Biden, whose disapproval rating cracked 60% late last month, would be 86 at the end of his second term if granted one by voters.

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France plans to punish 'failing' parents whose children commit crimes: 'Clearly an issue of authority to be restored'



France, beset by roving gangs of destructive youths, is planning on punishing parents who fail to keep their children in line.

Aurore Bergé, French minister of solidarity and families, revealed in a recent interview with La Tribune that the government will require "failing" parents whose children engage in criminality to perform community service and make financial amends.

France, presently on its fifth wavering republic since 1792, is also establishing a commission aimed at helping citizens "meet the challenges of parenthood." The commission will be co-chaired by psychiatrist Serge Hefez, head of the family therapy unit at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, and Hélène Roques, a specialist on youth issues.

Bergé stressed over the weekend that "parents cannot be forgotten by our public policies. We need them, we have to deal with them. And it is on them that I want to rely as Minister of Solidarity and Families."

The French minister noted that these measures are a response, not to the recent anti-white mass stabbing perpetrated by a gang of young men, but rather to the summer race riots, which proved to be almost as destructive as the 2020 BLM riots in the United States.

In June, Nahel Merbouz, a 17-year-old motorist of Algerian and Moroccan heritage, reportedly flouted the demands of police to stop his rental vehicle after driving recklessly. After Merbouz ran a red light, he got stuck in traffic, enabling police to catch up with him. When the police leaned on his rental car and ordered him to stop, Merbouz elected instead to veer forward, prompting a lethal response from one of the officers.

Following the police-involved shooting, multitudes of Algerians and other French residents took to the streets to protest, pillage, and riot.

Hundreds of bank branches and thousands of stores were robbed. Thousands of vehicles were torched. Some buildings that survived the worst of World War II were reduced to rubble. One of the country's biggest libraries, full of cultural artifacts and millions of books, was burned to the ground. Hundreds of police were injured.

Justice Minister Eric Dupont-Moretti indicated on the first night of the riots that 30% of those detained by police were under the age of 18.

"We all remember the images of these mothers going out into the street in the evening to collect their children and put them back on the right path," said Bergé. "But it is striking to note that 30% of the rioters were minors and that 60% of them grew up in so-called single-parent families."

"We cannot focus on parenting only in the face of crises," continued Bergé. "The whole of society must take it on board."

The minister pressed the issue of absentee fathers, noting that fatherhood "can't just be about child support! Society has ended up accepting the fact that women take on certain tasks with children alone. A couple can separate but the family still lives: You don't leave your children."

The absence of a father in the household has long been understood to be a robust predictor of community levels of violence. A 2022 study published in the Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology indicated that the likelihood of juvenile delinquency increases significantly when children are born and raised in single-parent households. This is especially true of children who grow up with only a biological mother.

As of 2016, an estimated 23% of French families with children under 18 were single-parent families. That figure appears to be climbing, having hit 25% in 2020.

Bergé noted that there is "clearly an issue of authority to be restored" and that it is neither "old-fashioned nor reactive to say so."

"Setting a framework, defining rules, embodying authority is for the benefit of our children," added the minister.

While the French government does not want to come across as "paternalizing or infantilizing," the family minister made clear that parents who fail to discipline their children will in turn be disciplined.

The Sunday Times reported that France already has laws in place allowing for the conviction of parents who fail to "fulfill their legal obligations ... to the extent of compromising the health, safety, morality and education of their child." Those found guilty could face up to two years in prison and a fine of roughly $32,254.

However, the initiative teased by Bergé, which builds on the suggestion of French parliamentarian Lionel Royer-Perreaut, will now have "failing parents" engage in community service tasks such as restoring public monuments, gardening, repairing vandalized buildings, and helping the elderly, reported the Sunday Times.

Extra to community service, the parents of children found guilty of damages will be required to make a financial contribution to a victims' association. Parents who fail to attend their children's hearings will also be fined.

Extra to penalizing negligent parents, France is looking to provide additional benefits to families and incentives to couples who might wish to have children.

"The family is the pillar of our society; today we clearly affirm it," concluded Bergé.

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French government warns that allegedly anti-white murder of French boy could be 'tipping point for French society'



A 16-year-old boy was savagely murdered at a French village's annual winter ball earlier this month. According to witnesses, the gang of young men responsible for the boy's death and the corresponding rampage on Nov. 18 made clear they were out to "stab white people."

In the days since, tensions in the European nation have begun to boil over, prompting the French regime to clamp down on so-called "far-right" groups and to urge citizens not to take the law into their own hands.

Olivier Véran, a socialist spokesman for the French government, stressed Tuesday, "We are lucid. There is a violent minority, which sows terror. But there is no justification for taking the law into your own hands. It is up to the rule of law to provide answers."

The demands for order issued by Véran and other officials are in response to alleged threats of vigilantism and protests loud with chants including, "Justice for Thomas," "Islam out of Europe," "Immigration kills," and "French, wake up, this is your home."

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Véran has acknowledged that Thomas' murder may amount to a "tipping point for French society," reported the Telegraph.

Given the French government's trouble containing Algerian race riots in July, which almost did as much damage to France as the BLM riots dealt to the United States throughout 2020, it's unclear what success the government will have in halting the pendulum on its return.

What's the background?

The French village of Crépol in the southwestern Drôme region had a winter ball on Nov. 18. Roughly 300 out of the village's 532 residents were in attendance. A gang of of approximately ten young men — reportedly from the epicenter of July's Algerian race riots — descended on the village dance, attacking 17 individuals in attendance between the ages of 16 and 65.

On their way in, the group of thugs stabbed a guard, slicing through his fingers.

According to France24, the attackers ultimately murdered a 16-year-old high school student named Thomas. A witness named Hugo indicated that Thomas was stabbed in the heart and throat.

One of Thomas' friends told Le Dauphiné Libéré newspaper that he heard a commotion outside where Thomas, a beloved rugby player who wasn't "the type to dance," had gone out for a smoke. Thomas' friend quickly went outside to investigate.

"I was stabbed in the shoulder and in the back," said the unnamed teen. "I saw my friend Thomas being stabbed. ... I saw another friend of mine get stuck in the back, I compressed his wound to make a tourniquet; he was hit in the kidney. It was horrific."

The teen recalled the attackers saying, "'We're here to stab white people.'"

According to prosecutors, eight other witnesses reported hearing the attackers signal anti-white hatred during their rampage.

The Telegraph reported that one witness told the French press, "There was a fight between the assailants and those who were brave enough to face them."

A young woman in attendance told Le Dauphiné Libéré, "I heard people say, 'It's crashing! It's crashing! They've got knives, leave!' ... There was blood everywhere. It was horrible, it wasn't something to experience at 16."

"It was a bloodbath," said another witness. "Youths from the suburbs surrounded the party hall, blindly stabbing people. ... One youth received a heart massage on the floor. It was chaos."

In addition to murdering Thomas, the outsiders injured eight revelers, two seriously. One of the two victims left in critical condition was stabbed several times in the throat.

The response

Martine Lagut, the mayor, stressed that the "gang turned up to kill."

"They didn't come to have fun but to harm," added the mayor.

Police spokeswoman Marie-Laure Pezan indicated the violence "was quite incredible for a village of 500 people."

Josette Place, a pensioner and member of Crépol's events committee, told the French press, "This wasn't a fight, it was an attack."

Government spokesman Véran said, "Thomas was 16 years old. He loved rugby, his family, his friends, whose pain and anger I share. He is a victim of the savagery that fell in Crépol. Suspects have been arrested. Justice will punish. Answers will be provided. We owe them."

Alex Vignon, the coach of Thomas' rugby team, said, "He was an endearing boy who had values that we instill in rugby."

The victim's rugby club, RC Romans-Péage, indicated they were visited by "barbarity and tragedy" and noted that the sport seemed trivial in the wake of Thomas' murder.

Days after the attack, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin revealed to French parliamentarians that police had arrested seven people believed to have had a hand in "this odious crime." A total of nine suspects are now in custody.

Three of the suspects are minors. The others are between ages 19 and 22.

France24 reported that the suspected killer was arrested near the city of Toulouse, some 250 miles away, during raids conducted by the country's elite GIGN unit.

Darmanin made clear, "People came from elsewhere, wanted to force their way into this party and stabbings started. It's called savagery," reported the Telegraph.

The interior minister added, "It is a general failure of our society. There is a need to rethink the framework of authority."

Despite the efforts of law enforcement to capture those responsible, protesters have taken to the streets demanding "justice for Thomas."

Over the weekend, around two dozen protesters were reportedly arrested, six of whom were fast-tracked through court proceedings and sentenced to several months in jail.

Fearing a "mobilisation within the exreme right ... would have us tip into civil war," Darmanin indicated the government is looking at clamping down on groups perceived to be far right and potentially even arresting their members, reported the Local.

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