France: Right-Wing National Rally Candidate Assaulted While Campaigning
France: Right-Wing National Rally Candidate Assaulted While Campaigning
The Facts
A group of masked assailants wearing black assaulted right-wing politician Hervé Breuil of Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN) party. The assailants beat Breuil while he was campaigning in the central French town of Saint Etienne.
While Breuil and four other campaigners were handing out flyers, witnesses told local media the attackers insulted and threw rotten fruit at him and his group. Breuil was then hospitalized after being kicked.
The Spin
The far-left in France will do anything to stop the rising popularity of the National Rally. Instead of defeating Breuil at the ballot box, they sent their militants to put him in the hospital. If RN is such a threat to democracy, why are its opponents the ones physically assaulting the democratic process?
All political violence should be condemned, but this news should not blind us to the dark future of France should the National Rally take power. In the wake of their EU parliamentary victory, RN supporters were seen violently attacking LGBTQ people; and if given a legislative majority, such attacks against all minorities will become commonplace.
