Is France Heading for a Civil War?

As French Muslims increasingly align with Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s pro-Hamas party, that danger, for now, comes from the left.

AP/Lewis Joly
The French far-left party leader, Jean-Luc Melenchon, at Paris on May 1, 2022. AP/Lewis Joly

Is France heading to a civil war? Yes — if one is to believe the far-left activists, who keep saying that “they will not allow the far right to rule,” even if they win the coming general election democratically. 

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