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It said it had "immediately removed him from the ranks of the security team and expelled him from the National Rally". The Carcassonne prosecutor's office said it had launched an investigation, without providing more details. Former prime minister
Polls show her leading in the first round of the presidential vote next spring and as posing at least a major threat to any rival in the second. Read more warned in April of"worrying" public racist comments and challenges to the rule of law. A far-right hate campaign has targeted Bally Bagayoko, the new Black mayor of Paris's largest suburb, while the hard-left
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France's far-right National Rally fires policeman from security team over racist, sexist comments
France's far-right National Rally (RN) has expelled a policeman from its ranks after bodycam footage of him making racist, homophobic and sexist remarks was published on Wednesday..
, of the 's equality minister Aurore Bergé condemning them as "absolutely unacceptable".
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Le Pen is running for president for a fourth time despite an appeals court in July upholding a graft conviction, a verdict she is seeking to overturn with the country's highest court.
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