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AL RAYYAN, Qatar (AP) — Youssouf Fofana has gone from serving pizzas to delivering crosses in the World Cup . Dropped in 2015 at age 14 from Clairefontaine, France's national training center, his future in soccer seemed at an end.

AL RAYYAN, Qatar (AP) — Youssouf Fofana has gone from serving pizzas to delivering crosses in the World Cup. Dropped in 2015 at age 14 from Clairefontaine, France’s national training center, his futur...

Youssouf Fofana has gone from serving pizzas to delivering crosses in the World Cup.

In 2010, a collection of wartime letters and photographs was discovered in an old cupboard at a Paris high school. Forgotten for years, the letters were written by a former pupil, Louise Pikovsky. When France 24 journalist Stephanie Trouillard found out about the discovery, she decided to help the school explore the story of a talented young girl whose life was cut short by the Holocaust.

Far-right parties carry baggage of the past when racism was more openly expressed. A youthful new leader in France hopes to shed that history – and bring young people back to the polls.

The “attitudes of much of the Foreign Office in Britain and of the US State Department,” says Groth, “were fundamentally hostile to Jewish rescue.”

Between November 1942 to May 1943, the SS imprisoned 5,000 Jewish men in roughly 40 forced labor and detention camps on the front lines and in cities like Tunis

People across much of North Africa were subject to racist laws and suffering at the hands of European powers during the Second World War.

According to foreign media, Bardella was elected with an overwhelming majority of 85% of the votes from the party members. This is the first time that a person other than the Le Pen family has been appointed as the party leader in the National Coalition.

Jordan Bardella, 27, has said he will aim to unite all far-right groups in France, but some critics have said he represents the ‘radicalisation’ of the party