A break-in at the country home of Jean-Luc Mélenchon saw his house graffitied with far-right slogans and a swastika. The troubling attack followed past assassination plots against the French left-wing leader — but international media totally ignored it.

Honey, it's 1920s we have to burn down the homes of the commies

But when it came to an actual escalation into violence against a politician over his beliefs, there hasn’t been a word about the attack on Mélenchon. The last time he was mentioned by Reuters — aside from a brief report about his comments following Jean-Marie Le Pen’s death this Tuesday — was in a December 6 article where you can read about how the ominous-sounding “firebrand leader” of France Insoumise “slammed” the Socialist Party president Olivier Faure for daring to talk to Emmanuel Macron.

mainly a story how it's not a story when it happens to leftists

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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    8 days ago

    So an icon of the socialist movement in France is assaulted by fascist brownshirts? Damn, it's the mid-2010s all over again.