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AFP via Getty Images CNews, France’s equivalent to Fox News, is under formal investigation for possible hate speech following allegedly racist comments targeting the newly elected Black mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko.
The Paris prosecutor’s office said on Friday that it has opened a formal probe into the controversial French news channel following the complaint filed by Bagayoko on Wednesday. A member of the far-left party France Insoumise, Bagayoko is the first Black mayor of Saint-Denis.
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