Valérie Pécresse told a committee the Black activist’s belief that racism was systemic did not apply to France
A row has erupted in France after a rightwing politician insisted that a high-school named after the Black US activist Angela Davis should change its name.
Valérie Pécresse, who ran for president last year for Nicolas Sarkozy’s party, Les Républicains, scoring a humiliating 4.78%, is head of the greater Paris Île-de-France region.
