French politicians from across the political spectrum Wednesday denounced what they called an "Islamist" attack on education after a school principal resigned following death threats over a Muslim veil.A 26-year-old man has been arrested for making death threats against the principal on the internet.
Sectors will go into terminal decline. Traditional industries will close. And blue-collar workers will lose forever the kind of well-paid jobs that could support a family. France’s youthful new Prime Minister Gabriel Attal took some time off yesterday from working out how to deal with the siege of Paris to blame Brexit for the decline of Britain’s heavy industry, and to warn that France could go the same way if it loosened its ties with Brussels.