Champions League Final: Post-match violence shakes up French election race

Far-right MPs have sought to capitalise on the violence that followed the Champions League final.

The post-match violence threatens to be an issue in parliamentary elections that will be held in two rounds from next weekend - with conservative and far-right opponents of President Macron spotting a massive opportunity.

More outrageous yet was the government's clear reluctance to call this out, for fear of alienating centre-left opinion by "stigmatising" the people of the Paris suburbs. "France has offered up a spectacle of what it is becoming," she tweeted. "A zone of general lawlessness."Ms Le Pen has seized on the disorder to attack President Emmanuel Macron's administration

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