Damien Cowley 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=19&v=_6NThE0QeL8 Paris – A chaotic student demonstration against the French presidential candidates is making its way across Central Paris this morning in a giant game of cat and mouse between police and protestors.
Graphic shows the progression of municipalities in which the Front National came first, culminating in the 2017 Presidential Election (FranceTV Info/ NICOLAS ENAULT / CARTO).
The normal Sunday morning is a lazy affair in the French capital.
Paris police ready themselves for violent leftist protesters.
https://www.facebook.com/MarineLePen/photos/pcb.1718514734831510/1718511278165189/?type=3&theater A largely overlooked study by French pollster, IFOP, shows a dramatic surge in support for Marine Le Pen amongst police and security forces over the past five years, with a large majority set to support the Front National candidate on Sunday’s first round of voting.
Paris – Marine LePen’s presidential campaign headquarters were attacked early this morning in an arson attempt claimed by a leftist group calling itself ‘’Combat Xenophobia’’, which is threatening more attacks between now and the French presidential election.
Photo Credit: Jonathan – RT France French presidential candidate, Marine LePen, has weighed-in on the controversial Islamic street prayers taking place in the Paris suburb of Clichy, criticizing her main rivals and their previous administrations’ ‘’laxity’’ for not tackling ‘’communitarianism’’ and the conditions under which such gatherings are taking place.
Photo Credit: Radio France – Sébastien Berriot A group of Ethiopian migrants claiming to have been between 14 – 17 years old in order to boost their chances of asylum in the United Kingdom have switched their stories on deciding to remain in France – revealing to authorities that almost all are over the age of 18, with many in their mid to late twenties.
Roubaix is a northern French town, close to the Belgian border.
‘’The hour of the grand democratic confrontation between globalists and patriots has arrived.” Addressing supporters in the northern French city of Lille on Sunday afternoon, Marine LePen announced a ‘‘rendez-vous with history’’, a fast-approaching day of reckoning between patriotism and globalism which would see France join a world-wide revolt against supra-national ‘’oligarchs’’ and their version of the world.
Pont d’Arcole If you haven’t heard of Clichy yet, you likely soon will.
LePen polling close to 34% in secret polls – Le Figaro An editorialist at French daily, Le Figaro, has alluded to secret polling data which show the Front National’s Marine LePen scoring above 30% of intentions to vote in the first round of the French presidential election.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Continuing the fiery rhetoric of the Turkish government towards the EU today, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told fellow Turks living in Europe that they were the continent’s future and that they must stake a claim to it.
In one of the first reactions from Ankara to the Dutch election result, Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, warned that Europe was heading towards the abyss and that ‘holy wars’ would soon begin on the continent – this coming despite the fact that nationalist Geert Wilders, a vocal critic of Islam, was pushed into second place by the center right Prime Minister, Mark Rutte.
UK – EU divorce negotiations imminent as ‘Brexit bill’ hours away from becoming law.
