(ANSAmed) The leader of France’s far-right Rassemblement National (National Rally, RN), Jordan Bardella, has distanced himself from the words used by writer Michel Houellebecq on Muslims of France, describing them as “excessive.” In an interview with magazine Front Populaire, the author described Muslims as a threat for the non-Muslim French, while partially backtracking later. He said that he did not wish for the French population that “Muslims be assimilated, but for them to stop stealing and attacking. Otherwise, another solution is for them to go,” said the best-selling author whose books include Submission, going as far as forecasting “Bataclan-style attacks” against the Islamic population.
The party leader said the novelist’s words “more or less painted everyone with the same brush,” when asked to comment live on BFM-TV.
