COLUMN. While Bally Bagayoko, the newly-elected mayor of Saint-Denis, has responded with composure to the media storm unleashed against him, leftist leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon is 'feeding the identity-based rhetoric of the far right,' writes Le Monde columnist Philippe Bernard.

COLUMN. While Bally Bagayoko, the newly-elected mayor of Saint-Denis, has responded with composure to the media storm unleashed against him, leftist leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon is…

Bally Bagayoko, the new mayor of Saint-Denis, filed a complaint after contributors to France's equivalent of Fox News sparked outrage with comments targeting him. The regulator…

EDITORIAL. Several recently elected mayors from immigrant backgrounds, such as Bally Bagayoko of Saint-Denis, have become targets of xenophobic attacks from the far right and…

OP-ED. Sociologist Stéphane Beaud and historian Gérard Noiriel analyze why people who have experienced racism – such as Bally Bagayoko, Saint-Denis's new mayor – may reject the…