“I can relate to you impressions that the media will be very careful not to show. [There were] around 10,000 persons.
“The front section of the parade was entirely composed of blacks and North Africans waving flags imprinted with the Islamic crescent. They represented one to two thirds of the total number of persons in the groups that followed.
“Let us remember that this sampling of students reflects the face of tomorrow’s France…”
