Mr Macron spoke to residents in the Bourtzwiller district of Mulhouse in eastern France on the first of a series of planned walkabouts. He made a point of not visiting a large new mosque in Mulhouse, a city with both a large immigrant population and many white supporters of the far-right. The French president was speaking against a backdrop of growing concern in France about the influence of Islamist radicals on troubled communities where crime is rife and where many of the inhabitants are of north African immigrant origin. Multiple terror attacks in recent years have added to those fears.
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