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slash podcasts. Hello and welcome to assignment. I'm Lucy Ash at a council meeting in the southern

French city of Bezier.

It's a place making headlines because of its controversial mayor

who's close to France's far right party, the French National.

Bue la.

Merci, if you do play.

Tonight things aren't going his way.

So there's a bit of a fracker already at the beginning of the meeting and some people have stood up at the back with posters that they're holding up.

And they're saying in my own city, I am free to welcome people people I want to welcome the refugees and there's

another one that says but men arezier doesn't belong to you.

I demand

Cilup no, to restel there.

There's a lot of people that are trying to get into the council chamber,

the police are keeping them out.

The row is about the mayor's treatment of eight newly arrived

Syrian families.

If you pleasure I demand those elieu, you revenue to vote plus. And the journalist you you tease. Robert Menard used to be a journalist

to you tell you.

Robert Menard used to be a journalist himself,

a socialist and the outspoken founder of an international press group.

Eighteen months ago, he caused shock waves by winning the town hall on a far right ticket.

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