“Sad to see the return to classes politically polarized by a new absurd religious war that is entirely artificial about female clothing,” hard-left political leader Jean-Luc Melenchon wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

Source: https://www.kuwaittimes.com/french-school-abaya-ban-sparks-secularism-row/

The leader of the far-left France Unbowed party, Jean-Luc Melenchon, stayed away from the march, saying last week on X that the march would be a meeting of "friends of unconditional support for the massacre" in Gaza.

Source: https://www.newser.com/story/342557/bipartisan-french-march-opposes-antisemitism.html