(AFP) When an Algerian woman with mental health problems killed a 12-year-old child in Paris last year, far-right idealogue Eric Zemmour wasted no time in labelling the crime a “francocide.”
After a Syrian refugee stabbed four children and two adults at a lake-side park in the Alps last week, he repeated the term — which he coined himself in a speech last September that referred to the “violent colonisation” of France by foreigners.
Other supposed victims of “francocide” — all white French people — include a secondary school teacher whose beheading by a radicalised Chechen refugee shook France in 2020.
Having contributed to making the “great replacement theory” mainstream in France, the 64-year-old best-selling author has introduced a new racially charged term to the political lexicon.
