An air of Deja Vu Reina in the political world this Wednesday, April 9, the day after the proposal of the deputies Les Républicins, Laurent Wauquiez, to “block” the people subject to the obligation to abandon the French territory (OQTF) in a retention center in Saint-Pierre-Et-Miququelon, a French archipelago located in front of Canada.
In fact, the former head of the Auverne-Rhône-Alpes region, currently campaigning against Interior Minister Brunoinleau to take the LR lead, is not the first to venture in this field where several supporters of the right have already set foot.
• Éric Ciotti and the “French Guantanamo”
To measure it, it is not necessary to return very far in time. In 2021, during the LR congress, allowing the party candidate to be appointed for the presidential elections, a certain Eric Ciotti begged for the creation of a “French guantanamo” to combat terrorism.
The deputy of the Maritime Alps, who combined with Marine Le Pen during the latest legislative elections, referred to prison for jihadists created by Americans after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
This proposal, almost impossible to establish at the legal and unconstitutional level, had already been mentioned by Eric Ciotti after the attack on the Basilica of Nice, in October 2020.
The expression is not specific to the former president of LR. Georges Fenech, then deputy LR and president of the Parliamentary Commission for Research on the 2015 attacks, declared in July 2016 the creation of a “French Guantanamo” to manage the return of the jihadists of Syria and Iraq.
• Nicolas Dupont-Aintan, Cayenne and the Kerguelen Islands
Such an idea also remembers those formulated by Nicolas Dupont-Aintan, president of France in the foot of Micro-Parti and former member of the UMP.
The former deputy of Essonne, defeated in the last legislative elections, proposed in 2014 on Sud Radio to “restore a detention center” in Cayenne to isolate “Los Locos” that left to make jihad before returning to French soil.
The sovereign defended himself from wanting a return to the prison of Cayenne, founded in 1852 by Napoleon III, then closed in 1938. Before finally apologizing during the 2017 presidential elections, in which he participated, recognizing that France 2 had “hurt Guyannais.”
Without abandoning your idea. He had proposed it again, but for the Kerguelen Islands, a French archipelago located to the south of the Indian Ocean and being part of the French lands of the South and Antarctica. The places are almost deserted by the human being, apart from the scientists present in the act.
Source: BFM TV
