Unreported World: Season 2025, Episode 3

2025 - 3: France's Far Right Feminists

Unreported World reports from France on the feminists taking the far-right to within touching distance of power. Darshna Soni talks to the growing movement of students, journalists and activists who believe migrants are a problem. Last year, for the first time, the far-right National Rally came close to securing power with 33% of the vote in the first round of parliamentary elections. Although it was defeated in subsequent rounds, the far-right party gained 38 seats in parliament. National Rally has a growing support from women, a new breed of so-called Femo-nationalists waging a fight for the soul of French feminism. Soni meets 20-year-old Kaïna Méné, who's tearing down left-wing posters protesting against the war in Gaza, in favour of her student group, who believe that immigration is a threat to women's safety. Soni tracks down a controversial and social-media-savvy group called the Nemesis Collective, who routinely protest against migration and are linked to groups in the UK associated with far-right extremist Tommy Robinson. When Soni attempts to question Alice Cordier, the group's founder, she's met with a hostile reception.