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After racist killing in Trappes, Mayor Ali Rabeh declares: 'The French president was not the protector he should have been'

Le Monde25 October 2026, 18:00 UTCFrance

In an interview with Le Monde, the mayor of the town west of Paris, reelected in March, lamented that far-right rhetoric has 'ended up penetrating the collective unconscious,' and said he felt a 'climate of simmering civil war.'

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