Voters in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis — home to many immigrants and Muslims — fear the surging far right but also resent Macron’s presidency.
SAINT-DENIS, France — Saint-Denis is both the hometown of far-right leader Jordan Bardella and the incarnation of everything he despises about modern France .A traditional French cheese merchant is neighbors with a halal butcher; a phone salesman sits beside a vendor selling traditional Muslim garments; and women wearing hijabs walk next to young Parisian professionals who moved to the suburbs in search of cheaper rent.
“In the teachers’ lounge, there’s a great deal of anxiety building up” at the prospect of a National Rally victory, said Kadia Kheriz, a high school teacher of Algerian descent in Saint-Denis whose family has lived in France for three generations. The most outspoken critics of the measures enacted under Macron have come from Mélenchon’s France Unbowed movement, which has repeatedly spoken out against what it perceived as Islamophobic policies.
While Mélenchon’s entire France Unbowed group voted against the “anti-separatism” bill, most Communist MPs, including Saint-Denis MP Peu, abstained.
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