The right-wing French magazine is reacting after publishing a cartoon depicting a black legislator in chains.
Magazine, Valleys Actuels, showed black member Daniel Obono French Parliament To illustrate the seven-page fictional story, in chains with an iron collar around his neck, from left.
Obono told the publication:Extremely right, weird, stupid and cruel. “
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French Prime Minister Jean Castex said it was a “rebellious publication calling for clear condemnation” and told Obonone that he had the government’s support. French President Emmanuel Macron, a centrist, has reportedly extended his support to Obono as well.
According to AFPThe story “in a completely bad taste,” said Vara Lerand de Saint-Just, an official with France’s far-right National Rally Party.
The magazine’s deputy editor, Tugduel Denis, said on French TV station BFMTV on Saturday that he understood the “symbolic charge” of the image depicting Obono and had personally apologized for it.
According to AFP, Valers Actuels initially responded to Obono’s comment on Twitter: “It is a fictional story that sets the scene for the horrors of slavery by Africans in the 18th century.”
He maintained that the story was “a work of fiction … but never nasty.”
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