Two years ago, Oriane Filhol, former deputy mayor to Mathieu Hanotin of the Socialist Party (PS) in Saint-Denis, was attacked by several masked and hooded North African men just outside her home, which Remix News covered at the time.
She was “hit violently in the face and body with punches,” wrote Le Parisien at the time, before she managed to escape to a friend’s home.
Responsible for the solidarity, women’s rights, and fighting against discrimination in her constituency, the current councilwoman Filhol had called the government’s proposed immigration bill “shameful” and “disgusting” because it included restrictions on immigration.
Now, after seeing the new mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, speaking with the man convicted of sending her attackers, she has resigned her post on the city council. The day after Bagayoko’s first-round win, Filhol says she saw the two having “a discussion that lasted several minutes and ended with a very warm handshake,” as quoted by Libération, which further notes that images seen by AFP show the two men talking alone on the steps of the town hall.
The former deputy mayor says that she cannot feel “safe on the city council, knowing precisely the relationship between the new mayor and the man who ordered my attack.”
The new mayor of Saint-Denis has caused waves with his rhetoric and announcements.
On March 15, after his first-round win, Bagayoko can be heard in a clip correcting a reporter who references Saint-Denis as the “la ville des rois,” due to the French kings and queens buried at the Basilica there. Interrupting the reporter, he says, “The Blacks, the Blacks, (Des Noirs! Des Noirs.)”
After his final, second-round win, he announced that police officers will be disarmed, a move many are saying is a call to let thugs rule the streets and for violence to prevail. For those officers who do not align with his policy, he invited them to simply leave. Some 90 out of 140 municipal police officers have already requested a transfer.
Many are also concerned about what his talk of creating “a political laboratory for LFI” in Saint-Denis will end up being a nightmarish far-left Islamic-Marxist trap, or in the words of Le Figaro: “Islamists are using the far left to infiltrate our institutions”: Saint-Denis, a dangerous laboratory for Mélenchon’s “new France.” In its article, Le Figaro takes a look back at its reporting a decade ago following the 2015 Paris attacks, calling out Saint-Denis’ disturbing trends of radical Islamism and similarities to Brussels’ Molenbeek, where several of the attackers had originated from.
After a new policy to disarm French officers, 90 out of 140 municipal police officers have requested a transfer out of the multicultural Saint-Denis neighborhood in Paris.
The new far-left mayor, Bally Bagayoko, announced that these officers should leave their jobs, saying… https://t.co/arJ7Oxdzer pic.twitter.com/FT5yEtpMPn
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LFI head Jean-Luc Mélanchon is known for pushing anti-White and Marxist ideologies, recently stating: “We are destined to be a Creole nation and so much the better.”
While LFI has hailed its victories in the local elections, commentators note that the major takeaway has been the failed alliances of the Socialists, who remain in power in the key cities of Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Lille, with far-left LFI. They point to a visible shift by many voters toward the center, away from Mélanchon’s leftist extremism and against Le Pen’s right-wing National Rally, effectively demonstrating a “Republican front,” as noted by The Guardian.
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