A French appeals court upheld the three-month suspended sentence and $8,100 fine imposed last September on a far-right mayor for making racist remarks in a newspaper interview. Catherine Megret, a member of the anti-immigrant National Front who was elected last year as mayor of the southern town of Vitrolles, had called immigrants “colonialists” and espoused racial inequality in the interview.
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