FILE - Far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour reacts after his speech at a campaign rally, Feb. 5, 2022 in Lille, northern France. The words "great replacement" roll off the tongue of candidate Eric Zemmour, an outsider whose views are to the right of the far-right, has made the term "great replacement" the underpinning of his campaign. The "great replacement" is the false claim that the native population of France and other western countries is bit by bit being overrun by Muslims who are allegedly supplanting, and one day will erase, Christian civilization and its values and replace them with an Islamic way of life. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, File)
PARIS – Two words, taboo for many in France because they evoke a conspiracy theory embraced by white supremacists, have been haunting the French presidential campaign.
“Great replacement” rolls off the tongue of presidential candidate Eric Zemmour, an outsider with views to the right of the far-right who has made the term the underpinning of his campaign. But when mainstream conservative presidential candidate Valerie Pecresse pronounced them at her first major rally last weekend, politicians and pundits screamed foul, saying she had crossed a red line.
The ”great replacement” is the false claim that the native populations of France and other Western countries are being overrun by non-white immigrants — notably Muslims — who are allegedly supplanting, and one day will erase, Christian civilization and its values. The...
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