Far-right messages from Trappes killer spark National Assembly clashes
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A killer's private messages have moved into the public arena, with Mediapart reporting that the Trappes attacker used Facebook to support Marine Le Pen and express an obsession with resisting an 'invasion'. In the National Assembly, the left and the government clashed over the political fallout and the normalization of far-right ideologies.
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