French PM accuses Le Pen of ‘exploiting’ Paris attack which killed a policeman
Bernard Cazeneuve accuses the anti-immigration candidate of taking advantage of the tragedy, and Trump tweets the attack will have a ‘big effect’ on the election
Paris — On Friday, French prime minister Bernard Cazeneuve accused far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen of seeking to use the killing of a policeman on Paris’s Champs Elysées for political gain. Cazeneuve, a socialist, accused Le Pen of "shamelessly exploiting fear and emotion for purely political ends", just two days before the first round of France’s presidential election. The head of the anti-immigration National Front (FN) "is seeking, as she does after every tragedy, to take advantage of it". Le Pen is tipped to be one of the top two, in terms of votes, who will qualify on Sunday for a decisive May 7 run-off. FN vice-president Florian Philippot responded to Cazeneuve on Twitter, saying the prime minister should "have resigned a long time ago for his incoherence and lack of rigour". US President Donald Trump, meanwhile, predicted the attack in Paris would affect the French presidential election, without naming which candidates he believed would benefit. "Another terror...
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