French Finance Chief Tells Zemmour He’s a Threat to Democracy
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Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told far-right presidential hopeful Eric Zemmour that he posed a danger to the French people in a heated debate on prime-time TV that veered from economic issues to the place of Islam in the country.
The hour-long head-to-head late Thursday culminated in journalists unsuccessfully attempting to curtail an exchange over the wartime Vichy government that served the Nazis. Zemmour has said the regime protected French Jews from the Holocaust, officials dismiss that as a manipulation of history.