In a seven-page story published this week in the weekly "Valeurs Actuelles", the deputy for Paris Danièle Obono is portrayed as a slave. On Monday, the Paris prosecutor's office said that an investigation had been opened for "racist insults". 

A preliminary investigation has been opened for "racist insults" after the publication in the weekly Valeurs Actuelles of a "political fiction" depicting LFI deputy Danièle Obono as a slave, Paris prosecutor Rémy Heitz announced on Monday.

Published Thursday, this conservative magazine article sparked a wave of unanimous condemnation in the political class, including the President of the Republic.