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More than ever, French politicians and commentators are blaming Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Front, for the current outbreak of intolerance. Recent polls give him the support of 15% of the population. After Carpentras, Interior Minister Pierre Joxe called Le Pen a racist and a provocateur. The National Front leader has aimed his invective mainly at North Africans. But he has also made outrageous remarks about Jews, calling the Nazi gas chambers "a point of detail" in history and making a pun involving the word crematory on a Jewish minister's name...
...Pen condemned the sacrilege at Carpentras, but his critics argue that his dogma of bigotry has encouraged this kind of depravity. Three weeks ago, the National Assembly passed a law -- apparently aimed at the National Front -- excluding from public service anyone convicted of inciting racial hatred...
Underscoring his point, tens of thousands of citizens took part in marches all across France last week to register their disgust with bigotry. In the Paris protest, which drew some 80,000 people, members of all religions and political parties -- except Le Pen's -- rallied together for the first time in recent memory. Even President Francois Mitterrand was there, marking the first time since Paris' liberation in 1945 that a French head of state has taken to the streets to demonstrate...
...forceful silent march raised hopes that this week's parliamentary debate on immigration and integration would produce a moderate consensus, which has so far proved elusive, on how to tackle these prickly issues. But that is not likely to stop the National Front. Le Pen's forces, always part of the problem, seem uninterested in any solution...