The passport of a Syrian refugee was found by the body of a dead suicide bomber outside the Stade de France. The man is believed to have passed through Greece in October. These chilling reports have already been seized upon by the radical right in France, Poland and beyond. They give a snapshot of how right-wing populists might stand to benefit from the public’s trepidation of Isis.
“France must immediately stop the entry of migrants on its territory,” reads a new statement from the Front National released today. It advocates the “immediate cessation” of the dispersion of migrants into France, contending that “our fears and warnings” about the consequences of admitting refugees from Syria are “embodied in these bloody attacks”.
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