The mayor of Chalon-sur-Saône in Eastern France is facing a cancel culture mob within his own establishment Les Républicains political party, after warning of ethnic cleaning of French people from their own neighborhoods by migrants. Gilles Platret made the claim earlier this week on French television.
“What we see today in some neighbourhoods — and I will use a word that will necessarily make reactions around this table — I feel a kind of ethnic cleansing,” said the mayor, remarking on phenomenon in which ethnic French feel increasingly unwelcome in large swathes of France’s cities primarily inhabited by migrants.
“People of foreign origin… gradually drive out what is called in demography natives, that is to say, people from the country, to make room,” warned Platret, citing France’s “Muslim bloc.”