How far-right language seeped from France's hard right to the highest levels of government

In response to a recent racist attack in Trappes, France, thousands protested against the normalization of racist hatred and political rhetoric's role in violence. Alain Jakubowicz criticized the banalization of such rhetoric, while Trappes' mayor accused the far right of creating an internal enemy. The far-right Rassemblement National defended its stance, with Senator Edwige Diaz using the controversial term "miniature Islamic Republic" to describe Trappes, a phrase previously used by RN president Jordan Bardella.