AP: “France’s anti-immigration far right gets boost from riots over police killing of teen”

ImmigrationProf blog previously reported on violence in France sparked by a police killing.  Following up on the violence, Elaine Ganley for the Associated Press observes that “[w]idespread riots in France sparked by the police killing of a teenager with North African roots have revealed the depth of discontent roiling poor neighborhoods — and given a new platform to the increasingly emboldened far right.

The far right’s anti-immigration mantra is seeping through a once ironclad political divide between it and mainstream politics. More voices are now embracing a hard line against immigration and blaming immigrants not only for the car burnings and other violence that followed the June 27 killing of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk, but for France’s social problems as well.”

KJ