French lawmaker accused of racist comment in Parliament

PARIS, 04 November 2022, (TON): A far-right lawmaker in France was criticized Thursday after he responded to a Black lawmaker’s question about migrants stranded at sea by saying, “Let them return to Africa.”

Gregoire de Fournas of the National Rally party made the comment in the National Assembly.

The president of the lower house of the French Parliament, Yaël Braun-Pivet, subsequently suspended the legislative session.

De Fournas spoke while Carlos Martens Bilongo of the leftist France Unbowed party was challenging French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist government over a maritime rescue boat that is carrying hundreds of passengers in the Mediterranean Sea and not received an assigned port.

Braun-Pivet said “the comment would be investigated.”

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