Film-maker warns against ‘rampant racism’ in France as election approaches
Alice Diop, one of France’s top documentary and feature directors, aiming to mobilise voters on housing estates against the far right
The award-winning French film-maker Alice Diop has warned of “rampant racism” in France and launched a collective to mobilise residents of housing estates to vote in the snap election in an attempt to hold back the far right.
“For people like me it’s life or death,” said the acclaimed director, as Marine Le Pen’s far-right anti-immigration National Rally (RN) is forecast by pollsters to take the largest number of seats in the French parliament on 7 July and is seeking an absolute majority to form a government.
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