{"id":668084,"date":"2026-01-02T02:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/668084\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T02:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:45:13","slug":"french-mayor-suspended-after-calling-france-too-jewish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/668084\/","title":{"rendered":"French mayor suspended after calling France \u2018too Jewish\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bernard Bazinet, mayor of the small town of Augignac in southwest France, has been suspended from his duties for one month following a controversial social media comment that drew accusations of antisemitism, Le Parisien reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The suspension order was issued by French Interior Minister Laurent Nu\u00f1ez and took effect Wednesday, running through the end of the month.<\/p>\n

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(Photo: Geoffroy VAN DER HASSELT \/ AFP)<\/p>\n

On December 4, Bazinet commented on a Lib\u00e9ration Facebook post regarding Israel\u2019s participation in the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest, which has faced boycotts from some countries amid the war in Gaza. In his response, Bazinet wrote, \u201cYes to a boycott! France is too Jewish to boycott!\u201d<\/p>\n

In an interview with the French news agency AFP, Bazinet, a former member of the Socialist Party, admitted: \u201cWhen I saw that France had approved Israel\u2019s participation, it led me to react foolishly. I wasn\u2019t necessarily aware that the term carried antisemitic connotations. When I tried to delete the post, I saw it had already been shared widely and cited by CNews.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few days later, the Socialist Party announced Bazinet\u2019s expulsion, citing his \u201cantisemitic remarks on social media.\u201d<\/p>\n

On December 22, Interior Minister Nu\u00f1ez condemned Bazinet\u2019s comment \u201cin the strongest terms,\u201d stating that the mayor \u201cno longer holds the moral authority necessary to carry out his duties.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bernard Bazinet, mayor of the small town of Augignac in southwest France, has been suspended from his duties…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-668084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115823216287375791","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}