“Don’t be wrong, the subject is extremely serious.” The deputies Les Répudicins, Laurent Wauquiez, defends this Thursday, April 17, BFMTV-RMC their controversial proposal to “lock” in a detention center in Saint-Pierre-Et-Miquelon of “dangerous” foreigners subject to an obligation to abandon the French territory (OQTF).
To convince their credibility, he argues that OQTF are “one of the areas of greatest state bank and security in our country.” When taking him to his detractors, while the measure was largely denounced by the political class.
“You will allow me to see that all those who have outraged when I made my proposal have not done anything at the moment,” he said.
The sequence dates back to a week. The candidate for the presidency of LR against Interior Minister Bruno Retilleau, Laurent Wauquiez appeared on April 8 in one of JD’s news with his proposal. Deploring this administrative retention for hazardous foreigners under OQTF is limited to 90 days, except in the case of a terrorist crime, former Nicolas Sarkozy minister wishes to press them.
“I am convinced that your decision will be to return to your country”
“They would only have an alternative: to go to Saint-Pierre-Et-Malalon, whether it is returning home,” he explains, arguing that these people would be blocked in the customs if they returned in France, because this territory abroad located on the coast of Canada is not part of the Schengen area.
Arguments that Laurent Wauquiez is renewed in BFMTV-RMC. “When you put them (people under OQTF) in France, they choose not to go home. If you put them there, and when they have understood that it is 4,000 km from here, I am convinced that their decision will be to return to their country and there we change everything,” he said, before insisting:
“I prefer that they are 4,000 km from here instead of free in our streets. Because in Saint-Pierre-Et-Malalon we can control them. You are in a small archipelago in which if we increase our safety it means that we have the possibility of putting them out of damage.”
Laurent Wauquiez admitted at the beginning of the interview, however, “it includes (re) the reaction of the inhabitants of Saint-Pierre-Et-Miquelon” outraged by this exit. The authorities of the French archipelago have also launched a communication campaign to respond for irony.
Playing in the acronym OQTF, the community proposes to reinterpret it positively and highlights the territory: “we leave everything easily” to live in Saint-Pierre-Et-Miququelon, “we come in search of family tranquility”, or even “qualified workers to work in the cold.”
Laurent Wauquiez continues almost only against all, since political reprobation is general, from the leader of Lead, Marine Le Pen on the left, through overseas minister Manuel Valls. It remains to be seen now if your strategy will pay at the LR Congress, scheduled for mid -May.
Source: BFM TV
