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December 9, 2015

British, French Leaders Criticize Trump's Remarks on Muslims 
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In a series of interviews Tuesday, Donald Trump also falsely claimed
there are areas of London and Paris that have become so "radicalized"
that police are afraid for their lives. He made the claim in an
interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe.

Donald Trump: "Paris is no longer the same city it was. They have
sections in Paris that are radicalized, where the police refuse to go
there. They're petrified. The police refuse to go in there. We have
places in London and other places that are so radicalized that the
police are afraid for their own lives."

Here in France, where the far-right, anti-immigrant National Front led
by Marine Le Pen surged in Sunday's regional elections, Prime Minister
Manuel Valls tweeted, "Trump, like others, stokes hatred and
conflations: our enemy is radical Islamism." Meanwhile, London Mayor
Boris Johnson rejected Trump's claims about radicalization in London,
saying, "The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the
real risk of meeting Donald Trump."

 

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