'People now feel free to express their hate': the racist attack on a market garden in Brittany
Idriss, who is originally from Sudan, has lived in Brittany in north-western France since 2016 and runs a market garden for an association which helps migrants interested in a career in agriculture. In early July, during the parliamentary election campaign which saw increased support for the far-right, this social enterprise was targeted by racist attacks on two successive nights. Idriss has reported both incidents to the authorities, and says he fears that someone could get hurt if there are similar episodes in the future. Nejma Brahim reports.
BehindBehind the huge sliding glass doors the slender outline of Idriss approaches and comes to a halt in an area that looks rather like a kitchen: there is a sideboard and tables laden with large plastic containers of drinking water, while an oven and fridge also equip this open-plan room. Everything is perfectly tidy, very different from the scenes of chaos that greeted the young man when he arrived one morning ten days earlier, during a parliamentary election campaign marked by the rise of the far-right in France.
