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Leftwing politicians have branded the fundraiser as shameful while the far right has defended a police force it says is a daily target for violence in the low-income suburbs that ring French cities. It is a debate that reflects the deep fractures running through French society. "This police officer is the victim of a national witch-hunt and it is a disgrace," Messiha tweeted soon after launching the campaign. "You are perpetuating an already yawning rift by supporting a police officer under investigation for voluntary homicide. ($1 = 0.9173 euros)Reporting by Elizabeth Pineau; Writing by Richard Lough, editing by Emelia Sithole-MatariseOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Macron, Nahel, Jean Messiha, Eric Zemmour's, Messiha, Olivier Faure, GoFundMe, Eric Dupond, Moretti, Emmanuel Macron, Elizabeth Pineau, Richard Lough, Emelia Sithole Organizations: U.S, Socialist Party, France Inter, Police, Thomson Locations: PARIS, France, French, Algerian, United States, Britain
[1/4] Protesters gather during a demonstration after the pension reform was adopted as the French Parliament rejected two motions of no-confidence against the government, in Paris, France, March 22, 2023. REUTERS/Nacho DocePARIS, March 23 (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people were set to strike and demonstrate in France on Thursday after President Emmanuel Macron vowed to push on with a deeply unpopular pension reform despite escalating anger across the country. Macron drew an angry response from unions and opposition parties on Wednesday when he rejected their calls for him to heed growing popular anger. Most protests have been peaceful, but anger has mounted since the government pushed the bill through parliament without a vote last week. Polls show a wide majority of French opposed to the pension legislation and the government's decision to push it through parliament without a vote.
Marine Le Pen, member of parliament and president of the French far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National - RN) party parliamentary group gives a news conference at the National Assembly in Paris, France, August 2, 2022. Stepping onto the soccer field along side Le Pen's party lieutenants would only accelerate that process, they said. "Trivialisation leads to alliances between the right and the extreme right, and this is how the extreme right can then govern," he added. Far-right lawmakers said those boycotting the evening game were guilty of holding French voters in contempt. "I'm sorry that the left and hard left are not capable of rising above these political divisions and accepting the result of the ballot box.
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