French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday that France would stand firm against racism but would resist vandals destroying statues or people pushing for a “false rewriting” of the country’s history.
“We will be inflexible when it comes to tackling racism, anti-Semitism and discrimination, and new strong decisions will be made to reinforce the egality of chances,” Macron said, according to a translation provided by TIME. “But this noble fight is perverted when it turns into communitarianism, into a false rewriting of history.”
