There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.
Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.
I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.