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France's National Assembly has suspended a far-right lawmaker, Gregoire de Fournas, from parliament for two weeks for a racist outburst after he shouted “Go back to Africa” when a black member of the lower house was speaking about stranded migrants, Deutsche Welle has reported. It was learnt that the Member of the Parliament(MP) was issued a 15-day suspension for his racist comment. The parliament also sanctioned Gregoire de Fournas of Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN) party with a cut of half his compensation for two months.

November 4, 2022

The parliament also sanctioned Gregoire de Fournas of Marine Le Pen's National Rally party with a cut of half his compensation for two months. The far-right MP later denied he was addressing leftist Carlos Martens Bilongo of the France Unbowed party, saying Thursday's outburst was directed at migrants stranded on a rescue ship. In French, the words"he,""they" and"it" are pronounced identically.

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