A French parliament session was thrown into turmoil after a far-right legislator was accused of yelling “go back to Africa” to a Black colleague who asked a question on migrant arrivals. French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne urged the assembly to sanction Gregoire de Fournas for his racist remarks for a Black colleague, while he apologised for a ‘misunderstaning’. Parliament member Carlos Martens Bilongo of the leftist France Unbowed party was questioning the government over the migrants stuck in the Mediterranean Sea. The President of the lower house of the French parliament Yaël Braun-Pivet subsequently suspended the legislative session, later saying the comment would be investigated.
