Niger's junta denounced the comments as divisive and served only to perpetrate France's neo-colonial relationship.
Perhaps France will think twice the next time before wagging a finger at Israel and will not join the tired chorus of those urging the Jewish state to act with “restraint” and “proportionality.”
Until the economic situation improves and more children in the suburbs don’t get a better chance at succeeding, the bitterness of this ‘Second France’’ will only continue.
Police clashed with protesters in the northern city of Lille and in Toulouse in the southwest, and there was also unrest in Amiens, Dijon and the Essonne administrative department.
Macron is supposed to meet MBS on Friday at the French president's Elysee Palace, where they will discuss Ukraine and other issues.
The important conversation comes as Macron has also appointed an envoy to Lebanon to help work to mediate the crisis there over the lack of a new president.
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