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Tunisian man's killing in France investigated as racist hate crime

French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, who is to meet with the Tunisian ambassador Tuesday after the murder of a Tunisian man in the south of France. The minister, who called the murder a "racist crime" is accused of normalising racism by engaging with the far right on the issue of immigration and Islamophobia. © Thibault Camus/AP

French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau is meeting Tuesday with the Tunisian ambassador to France following the murder of a Tunisian man by one of his neighbours at the weekend that is being investigated by anti-terrorism police as a hate crime.

The man who killed Hichem Iraoui Saturday in the Var department in southern France "posted two videos on his social networking account with racist and hateful content before and after his murder", the public prosecutor of Draguignan, Pierre Couttenier, told the AFP news agency Sunday.

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