‘Racist ideology lodges itself amid austerity politics’: newly elected French mayor on tackling far right

New Saint-Denis mayor seeks to turn racist insults against him into 'a foundation for building things'

Bally Bagayoko, the new hard-left mayor of the northern Paris suburb, filed a complaint for 'public insults' of a racist nature on Thursday, after having been targeted by racist insults on the CNews channel since being…