Welcoming the humanitarian ship Ocean Viking is a “dramatic sign of laxity”, Marine Le Pen said on Thursday, shortly after the government gave the green light to disembark “exceptionally” in Toulon with 234 migrants on board.
“By accepting for the first time that a ship disembarks immigrants in a French port, Emmanuel Macron is sending a dramatic signal of laxity. With this decision, he can no longer make anyone believe that he wants to put an end to massive and anarchic immigration. ”, the president of the National Association (RN) group declared in particular to the Assembly on Twitter.
Far-right former presidential candidate Éric Zemmour also denounced a “sign to smugglers.” “He is irresponsible, immoral and contrary to the popular will and even to humanism that must prevent these crossings at all costs,” he tweeted.
Confrontation between France and Italy
The SOS Méditerranée Ocean Viking ship, which has been wandering the sea for weeks, will be received on Friday at the military port of Toulon and “a third” of the migrant passengers will be “relocated” to France, if they are regularized. announced this Thursday the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, after the Council of Ministers.
He assured that this reception was done “in an exceptional way” and that passengers who did not meet the criteria for asylum seekers “would be returned directly.”
The ship, the subject of a clash between France and Italy for several days, is currently off Corsica with 231 migrants on board, three of whom were airlifted on Thursday morning because they were seriously ill.
“Il était temps!”, at the inverse réagi deputé La France insoumise Antoine Léaument, played in a tweet that s’agissait pour la France d'”una décision à la hauteur de ce qu’incarne son drapeau pour the world”.
“It is not for nothing that our motto contains the word ‘Fraternity’”, concluded the deputy from Essonne.
Source: BFM TV
