Yahoo News No, leftwing activists didn’t start this fire in a Paris suburb
Social media accounts with links to the far right started circulating a video on June 30 that they claim shows a fire started by “left wing activists” in Bobigny, a suburb located to the north of Paris, after the far right party the National Rally won the first round of the French parliamentary elections. It turns out that the fire actually began hours before election results were published in Seine-Saint-Denis, the prefecture where Bobigny is located.
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Since June 30, far right social media users have been circulating a video that they say shows a fire started by leftwing activists in Bobigny, a suburb of Paris, after the far right party, the National Rally (in French, Rassemblement National or RN) swept the first round of the French parliamentary elections.
However, the prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis, where Bobigny is located, denied that the elections had any link with the parliamentary elections and said that the fire began before election results were posted.
The fact check, in detail
Did rioters start burning things down after the far right National Rally (in French, Rassemblement National or RN) scored a historic win in the first round of the French parliamentary elections? That’s what posts by far right social media users claim. They’ve been sharing a video that they say shows a fire started by activists from “left wing parties” in Bobigny, a suburb located to the northwest of Paris after they heard the election results. The video has garnered more than 125,000 views on X since it was first posted on June 30 and has also circulated widely on social media networks Facebook and Threads.
