Word: provocateurs
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...than ever, French politicians and commentators are blaming Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Front, for the current outbreak of intolerance. Recent polls give him the support of 15% of the population. After Carpentras, Interior Minister Pierre Joxe called Le Pen a racist and a provocateur. The National Front leader has aimed his invective mainly at North Africans. But he has also made outrageous remarks about Jews, calling the Nazi gas chambers "a point of detail" in history and making a pun involving the word crematory on a Jewish minister's name...
...shouts a burly farm worker. Before anyone can answer, a thin man with a red face rises to denounce Ion Ratiu, the Peasant Party leader and one of three presidential candidates. "He's a capitalist who ought to go back to the West," the man blusters. Retorts another angrily: "Provocateur, who sent you? If you don't like it here, get out before we throw you out!" By now, half the audience is on its feet, and only restraining arms prevent protagonists from coming to blows...
Ceausescu: There is not a single account. You are a provocateur...