As France lifts its lockdown and welcomes vaccinated visitors from the EU and America, a new museum opens in the center of Paris that features contemporary African American artists.
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In France, a news channel that sometimes plays up fears and conspiracy theories is becoming more popular. It s accused of pushing a far-right agenda and throwing fuel on France s culture wars. NPR s Eleanor Beardsley reports on what is sometimes called the French Fox News.
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ERIC ZEMMOUR: (Speaking French).
ELEANOR BEARDSLEY, BYLINE: Eric Zemmour is the star of CNews. The far-right commentator is an adept debater with deep historical knowledge. But his incendiary anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant diatribes have earned him hate speech condemnations from France s audiovisual authority and French courts. Last September, he launched into unaccompanied young migrants
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Eleanor Beardsley
Eleanor Beardsley began reporting from France for NPR in 2004 as a freelance journalist, following all aspects of French society, politics, economics, culture and gastronomy. Since then, she has steadily worked her way to becoming an integral part of the NPR Europe reporting team.
Beardsley has been an active part of NPR s coverage of terrorist attacks in Paris and in Brussels. She has also followed the migrant crisis, traveling to meet and report on arriving refugees in Hungary, Austria, Germany, Sweden and France. She has also traveled to Ukraine, including the flashpoint eastern city of Donetsk, to report on the war there,
Adama Traoré was 24 when he was detained and died in police custody in France in 2016. His sister, who has been protesting the death, has been sued for defamation by the three officers involved.
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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The trial of a woman who says the French police are responsible for her brother s death wrapped up in a Paris court today. Her brother was a Black man who died in police custody. She says he was asphyxiated just like George Floyd. She s been fighting to bring the officers to justice for the last five years, but it wasn t the officers on trial today. She was for defaming them. NPR s Eleanor Beardsley reports.