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Senegal infuriated by what it calls racist remarks from French candidate Zemmour

Senegal said that it will take appropriate actions against French presidential candidate, Eric Zemmour who said that the delinquents and crack cocaine dealers in Paris are Senegalese. © AP/Michel Spingler

Senegal said that it will take appropriate actions against French presidential candidate, Eric Zemmour, for the “degrading and irresponsible” comments he made against the Senegalese community living in France. This after the far-right contender branded some of its members delinquents and crack cocaine dealers.

“The comments made by Eric Zemmour are racist,” El Hadji Magatte Seye, Senegal’s ambassador to France, told RFI.

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