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NEWS & LETTERS, June 2002
French May DayMontpellier, France—The spontaneous demonstrations agianst Le Pen started here with the high school students on the very night of the first round election, April 21, and continued with a thousand or more at 6 p.m. all week. The April 27 march was called by the Students’ Union and various leftists and civil liberties folk. We went all around the city, a couple of miles, about 15,000 strong (according to police and press), a very young crowd in a basically good mood, but with bitter feelings expressed in signs and chants. These ran the gamut from a mild “Jean-Marie: pas gentil" to a ferocious “Le Pen, Fascho, le peuple aura ta peau" ("Le Pen, you Fascist, the People will have your hide"). As a foreigner, I liked the slogans like “First, Second, Third Generation, we are all the children of immigrants" and best of all, “Keep the undocumented aliens, Expel Le Pen." —R. G. |
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