(AFP) In her first speech in parliament as France’s riots ebbed this week, far-right leader Marine Le Pen accused the government of turning the country into a “hell” that she had foreseen.
“The reality is that you didn’t want to hear any of the warnings,” said the 54-year-old, whose 89 MPs form the biggest opposition party in parliament since elections last year.
“We predicted what is happening despite great adversity. Unfortunately we were right.”
She and her father Jean-Marie have been forecasting France’s demise and even civil war since the 1970s in doom-laden speeches focused on the presence of foreigners in France.
“Above all and before anything else, we need to stop anarchic immigration,” Le Pen continued.
