Moment far-right MP shouts 'go back to Africa' during French Parliament

The French parliament was suspended on Thursday after a hard-right MP in Marine Le Pen's party was accused of shouting "back to Africa" to a black colleague as he posed a question about migrants.

Carlos Martens Bilongo of the leftist France Unbowed party (LFI) was questioning the government on the request by the SOS Mediterranee NGO for Paris's help in finding a port for 234 migrants rescued at sea in recent days.

"They should go back to Africa!" interrupted Gregoire de Fournas, a newly elected member of Ms Le Pen’s nationalist, anti-immigration National Rally, or RN.