‘This situation is terrifying’: rise in far-right violence ahead of key French election

Polls project Marine Le Pen's RN will emerge as the dominant political power after the elections. Photo: Reuters

Juliette Jabkhiro

When a Green party activist was headbutted in the street, his attackers told him there was more to come when the far right’s Jordan Bardella wins France’s parliamentary election. A Muslim family received a note with similar threats.

Hours after Mr Bardella’s National Rally (RN) party scored big in the European election this month, four men in Paris assaulted a teenager at whom they hurled homophobic and transphobic slurs.