Every day, Edwige Diaz and her far-right Rassemblement National aides scour local newspapers in the Gironde region near Bordeaux for leads. Shopkeepers opening a new store or a football club winning a trophy will be among the recipients of 30 to 50 emails they send out a week: congratulations, commiserations or just hellos. Often, it pays off.
David Noël, a historian and former city council member in Hénin-Beaumont who squared off against Briois, described in a 2020 paper how the town became a laboratory for the party’s ideas. Briois grandstanded in 2015 during the Syrian refugee crisis by refusing to take any of them in, and the local council passed a charter called “my commune without any migrants”.
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