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James Thomas

Are the French removing the EU flag from public buildings and is it illegal?

French citizens are tearing down the EU flag from town halls and schools to reclaim their country from Brussels, according to a viral X post that is fuelling a long-running anti-EU narrative depicting the bloc as "tyrannical".

The post shows a video next to a picture of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. In the video we see a man taking down an EU flag that had been flying alongside the French and Occitan flags.

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