The president of the National Group, Jordan Bardella, asked Emmanuel Macron this Friday to commit to not welcoming “a single migrant” from the Italian island of Lampedusa, where in recent days more than 7,000 people from the north of Africa.
“Emmanuel Macron must solemnly assume this commitment: France will not welcome any migrant from the concerted Lampedusa operation,” declared on X (formerly Twitter) the head of the far-right party’s list for the European elections in June 2024.
“For those who said they wanted to ‘significantly reduce’ immigration, this is the moment of truth. Firmness or impotence?” he added.
“Signs of laxity”
This Friday a meeting will be held at the Ministry of the Interior regarding the massive arrival of immigrants to the Italian coasts, mainly to the island of Lampedusa. The island’s reception center, built to house 400 people, is overwhelmed by this influx, undoubtedly related in part to the floods in Libya.
The day before, the head of the RN had already estimated that “the signals of laxity from the EU were received 5/5 by the smugglers and by all of Africa: Lampedusa, therefore Europe, is submerged.” “On June 9, 2024, Europe has the opportunity to send a clear message: ‘no way!’ (impossible, editor’s note)”, he explained on the same channel.
Present in Lampedusa, the head of the Reconquête list (far right), Marion Maréchal, assured this Friday on BFMTV that he wanted to “give support to the Italian people (and) to the Italian government abandoned by the European Union.” , also abandoned by France, and which is alone in managing this situation, although the Italian borders are not only the borders of Italy, but the borders of all of Europe.
In Les Républicains (LR), MEP François-Xavier Bellamy, also on BFMTV, criticized a European policy that is “bankrupt on migration, because European law has long disarmed our States in their capacity, in their willingness to control their borders.
Source: BFM TV
