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A French television show has exposed a Russian news report about Euroskeptics in France as a cocktail of misquotes and falsifications. The 12-minute report, aired on Russian state television earlier this month, displayed a France in chaos. It showed violent street protests over a new labor law and immigrants who had supposedly taken over a graffiti-sprayed secondary school in Paris. It interviewed a pensioner who claimed her job had been taken by foreigners and a young woman who said she was "scared of immigrants."

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