‘Trumpization’ of politics in terror-plagued France lamented by Prime Minister Manuel Valls

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls told a Paris-based news network on Monday that “Trumpization” of politics has gripped the nation.

Mr. Valls told BFM TV that the July 14 terror attack in Nice prompted rhetoric that sounds “exactly” like the Republican presidential nominee.

“I was looking at what is happening on the other side of the Atlantic with [U.S. Republican presidential nominee] Donald Trump, and it is exactly the same method,” Mr. Valls said, Politico reported. “The political violence, the excessiveness, the undermining of democracy, the sweeping accusations, the slander …”

The prime minister cited Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi as an example of the “Trumpization of the mind” because he accused officials of lying about the number of law enforcement personnel on hand during the attack.

Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian man, killed 84 people by running over them with a large truck during Bastille Day ceremonies.

Mr. Valls said Mr. Estrosi’s charges “undermined our constitution, our principles, our values and the rule of law.”

It was also revealed one day after the Nice massacre that French officials tried to suppress news of a torture scene at the Bataclan theater. Members of the Islamic State terror group killed 130 across the city on Nov. 13, 2015, with 89 dying at the Bataclan theater alone.

A translation of a government committee’s testimony by the News Corp.-owned website Heat Street showed officials discussing whether or not gouged-out eyes, beheadings and other forms of torture were caused by shrapnel.

“Some of the bodies found at the Bataclan were extremely mutilated by the explosions and weapons, to the point that it was sometimes difficult to reconstruct the dismembered bodies,” a prosecutor said. “In other words, injuries described … may also have been caused by automatic weapons, by explosions or projections of nails and bolts that have resulted.”

“Would those have put a man’s [testicles] in in his own mouth?” the committee member fired back. “I do not have that information,” the prosecutor replied.

Terrorists also struck the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo on Jan. 7, 2015, and a Jewish supermarket two days later. The rampage claimed the lives of 16 people.