What does it say this June 27?

This Thursday, June 27, racist speech seems to be released since the results of the European elections, we are trying to understand how nominations for the legislative elections work and two French basketball players find themselves first in the NBA Draft.

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A sign against racism in a demonstration in Dijon, June 15, 2024. (TARDIVON / MAXPPP)

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This Thursday, June 27, several events and declarations which testify to increasingly liberated racist speech accumulate. From speeches by Karim Rissouli and Mohammed Bouhafsi to the attack by a motorist on a bus driver in Val-de-Marne, including a complaint from the SOS Racisme association for provocation of racial hatred after the publication of a song on Tiktok, this resurgence seems to date from the European elections, won by the National Rally.

The first round of the legislative elections takes place in three days and Lohan, listener of ça dit quoi, wonders if it is necessary to be nominated by a party to run and try to become a deputy. Being of legal age, having French nationality and not having been declared ineligible are the only conditions for applying.

The two French basketball players Zaccharie Risacher and Alexandre Sarr were the first two chosen during the NBA Draft, the selection of the best young talents, on the night of Wednesday to Thursday. They succeed Victor Wembanyama, one will play in Atlanta, the other in Washington.

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