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British, French Leaders Criticize Trump’s Remarks on Muslims

HeadlineDec 09, 2015

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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