PARIS (NETTAVISEN): The right-wing French candidate Marine Le Pen has never been closer to a victory in France. Several French citizens fear Le Pen and believe she is a racist and extremist.
Eva Joly describes Le Pen’s policy against Muslims as segregating and stigmatizing.
Outside the Great Mosque in Paris, also referred to as the Paris Mosque, Nettavisen meets Mehdi who comes out walking. The young man hopes Marine Le Pen will not come to power.
– She wants the Jewish and Muslim community to stop eating halal meat. She wants Muslim women not to get out of their homes. What is the solution? Should they just sit inside their houses? It’s a racist program.
Still racist
Mehdi believes Marine Le Pen has tried to strengthen the party’s reputation.
– It’s been ten years. She has distanced herself from her father, but what she wants to do is still racist, says Mehdi.
Marine Le Pen’s father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, was more extreme than his daughter when he was party leader.
The young man fears a more hostile society.
– I do not know if I will ever have the opportunity to eat beef or chicken. We have imports. To make halal meat, the meat must be prepared in a special way. Marine Le Pen believes this practice is animal cruelty. We will certainly have the opportunity to import, but these proposals affect attitudes towards Muslims.
– Do you feel that your freedom will be restricted if Marine Le Pen is elected?
– Yes, and if not my own freedom then it is my mother’s freedom.
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– Vote blank
The online newspaper also meets two young Muslim women. They want to remain anonymous, but say they will not vote for Le Pen.
– There is something good in her program, but not everything. I think I will vote blank, says one of the women.
– I do not think Le Pen will be able to make France the world’s first country to ban veils, says the other woman and points out that she herself is an immigrant.
– She can not win
One who is not worried at all is Drammeh. He also belongs to the mosque.
– Many people do not like Le Pen because she is racist. She does not like Islam and she does not like immigration. That’s the problem.
– How has the atmosphere been in the mosque in recent days?
– In the mosque, there are many who should not vote for Le Pen because she is a racist.
– But are people worried that she will win?
– No, because people know she can not win.
– But she can win?
– No, I do not think so, he says and laughs.
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