France suspects foreign interference in key mayoral races

The campaign was aimed at lawmakers of the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) party who are running to be the mayors of the southern cities of Marseille and Toulouse, AFP learned, with the first round of voting Sunday. France's VIGINUM agency, which tracks foreign disinformation campaigns, said it had detected inauthentic-looking websites and social media accounts with "foreign technical markers" that had been targeting "a French political party and... some of its candidates in the municipal elections in Marseille and Toulouse".