A migrant camp in the most stunningly beautiful part of Paris is a good place to discuss the rise of the far-Right in France. Ahmad Hazrat, a 26-year-old fleeing the Taliban in his native Afghanistan, is sharing a mangled green charity tent with two friends on the Île St-Louis, the picture postcard island in the River Seine.
Well-informed, and fluent in English, he dreams of getting out of President Emmanuel Macron’s troubled republic as soon as possible. “Hatred is everywhere, and it’s getting worse,” he said. “We get moved on by the police all the time, and people insult us in the streets.
