FAUX PAS
After a spate of Islamist attacks in France, President Macron decried a “crisis in Islam,” intervened in mosques and ordered a border crackdown. Now he’s fighting off the backlash.
Anna Pujol-Mazzini is a freelance journalist based in Paris. She has written for the Telegraph, Reuters, the Washington Post, Le Monde and many others. She used to be a foreign correspondent in West Africa for AFP. She speaks French, English, Spanish and Italian fluently.
After a spate of Islamist attacks in France, President Macron decried a “crisis in Islam,” intervened in mosques and ordered a border crackdown. Now he’s fighting off the backlash.