French President François Hollande reiterated his pledge to reduce unemployment in a televised message on Tuesday evening, the president's annual New Year's message to the French people from the Elysée Palace.
The French president went on to say that France would remain firm "in the face of racism, anti-Semitism and discrimination". He was speaking a day after Paris prosecutors launched an investigation into whether a prominent French comedian had broken the country's laws against inciting racial hatred for joking about World War II gas chambers in a performance earlier this month.
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