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Fear of what, fear of whom?
Jean-Luc Mélenchon doesn’t like going to public service, it makes him want to write an angry blog post afterwards. But, presidential campaign requires, the rebellious leader was on France 2 Thursday evening, facing various journalists from France TV who came to question the candidate on specific subjects. Mélenchon was notably questioned on Islamophobia. A subject oh so tense for him, attacked by the right and the Republican Spring for taking part in a 2019 demonstration against Islamophobia in Paris, organized after the attack on the Bayonne mosque.
“Do we have the right to Islamophobia?” asked journalist Patrick Cohen. “You don’t have to hate others.began Mélenchon. […] The right to Islamophobia, do you think there are those who deprive themselves of it today? You have the feeling that during a presidential campaign, people have to come and say: “Yes, you have the right to…