"The game has been produced by a left-wing, anti-fascist collective named La Horde and appears popular - it has already sold out, although the group says that fresh stocks will be available in January. It uses cards to show seven political 'families', and its name is a play on the familiar French term 'facho' to mean fascist or right-wing, as in ' la fachosphere' of right-wing internet content and social media accounts."
"The interior ministry confirmed that a legal complaint had been made in the name of Nuñez, who served as Paris police chief before being appointed Interior Minister earlier this year. Eric Henry, of the police union Alliance Police Nationale, also condemned the game, telling Europe 1: "It's a clear attack on the dignity of police officers. It's defamatory, it's a nauseating amalgam. These comments, even when presented in the guise of humour or derision, contribute to discrediting the men and women of the national police force.""
"It appears that the card which Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez has taken exception to is the 'flic raciste' (racist cop), whose characteristics include contrôles au faciès (racial profiling) and destructeur de camps de migrants (destroying migrant camps). In recent years, there have been several high-profile cases of French police officers caught on camera behaving violently towards people of colour - the shooting of a French-Algerian teenager in the Paris suburbs in 2023 sparked more than a week of rioting in towns across France."
France's interior minister filed a legal complaint over the politically-themed board game Fachorama produced by the left-wing collective La Horde. The game uses cards representing seven political 'families' and borrows its name from the slang 'facho' referring to right-wing online content. The contested 'flic raciste' card lists traits such as contrôles au faciès and destructeur de camps de migrants. The interior ministry confirmed the complaint was lodged in the minister's name, and the police union called the game defamatory and damaging to police dignity. The complaint follows years of controversy over policing practices and recent high-profile cases of violence against people of colour.
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