Le Porge, France, Aug 17, 2026 (AFP) - Residents jeer French PM on visit to fire-hit region

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2026-08-17

Dozens of residents on Monday jeered the French prime minister as he arrived in a region hit by wildfires earlier this summer, in a show of anger over the government's handling of the worst such crisis in France in decades. Some 200 people dressed in black gathered in front of the town hall in Le Porge in southwestern France, where 183 homes burned down when wildfires swept through the Gironde region in late July and early August, at one point ev......

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