Moment a French lawmaker shouts ‘Go back to Africa’ during fellow MP’s speech

Grégoire de Fournas, a French far-right lawmaker from the National Rally party, caused an uproar in parliament on Thursday when he shouted ‘Go back to Africa!’ during a question by the left-wing parliamentarian Carlos Martens Bilongo.
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Bilongo, who is black, was speaking about the refugee crisis, imploring lawmakers to take urgent action to help African migrants. Fournas’s interjection caused chaos in the chamber, with MPs shouting ‘get out’ before the house speaker, Yaël Braun-Pivet, temporarily suspended the session.

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