Bruno Retailleau does not give up. An assiduous killer of “good thinking” and “political correctness”, the very right-wing Minister of the Interior maintains his statements on immigration, even if they are shocking: “it is not an opportunity” if we do not “control it”, according to him.
“Common sense forces us to recognize it,” declared the former head of the LR senators, interviewed on France Inter, this Thursday, October 24.
It is a pity that his previous statements, made at LCI on September 29, have provoked accusations of playing into the hands of the extreme right and criticism of the presidential field from the left. For him, current immigration would not be good either for immigrants or for France.
“You have to be realistic”
Regarding the latter, “I want to remember the dramas that happen in the Mediterranean and the English Channel. The dramas that happen when we do not want to integrate,” he says, even going so far as to talk about “ghettos.” And the former member of the Movement for France of the sovereigntist Philippe de Villiers asks:
“Is it an opportunity when they are thrown onto the exodus routes? Women are raped because they (immigrants, editor’s note) are in the hands of human traffickers. They cross the Mediterranean taking risks. They arrive in France thinking it is a Dorado. They are located in the Porte de la Chapelle (18th arrondissement of Paris, on the border with Seine-Saint-Denis, editor’s note) and you think it is a possibility.”
Bruno Retailleau has been regularly criticized by the left but also by the Macronists since his appointment in Place Beauvau on September 21. For his various statements on immigration, but also for his particularly conservative positions (support for Manif pour tous, opposition to the constitutionalization of abortion, etc.) or his recent questioning of the rule of law.
A part of the presidential field also shows disagreements about its line of conduct regarding the next immigration law, announced for early 2025. La Vendéen wants to resume provisions of the previous text, voted in December 2023, which had been censored by the Constitutional Council .
Renaissance deputies would prefer to stick to current legislation. It must be said that the latest bill, largely toughened by pressure from LR, had created strong tensions, as the left denounced a text that amounted to establishing a “national preference”, long defended by RN.
Source: BFM TV