Is there a link between immigration and crime? The Executive responds with different nuances to this question. Elisabeth Borne will judge this Monday in le figaro that it is necessary “to tell the truth as it is, being careful not to make amalgams”.
“We are not going to hide the statistics that exist on crime in big cities. At the same time, I believe that we should not make a short circuit between immigration and crime”, explains the President of the Government in the newspaper columns, on the eve of a debate on migration policy in the National Assembly. This will be followed by the introduction of a government bill in the first quarter of 2023.
“Refusing to see it would be denying reality”
Gérald Darmanin sounds a different story than the Prime Minister. Asked during an interview in figaro on the existence of a correlation between immigration and crime, stated:
“Today, foreigners represent 7% of the French population and commit 19% of criminal acts. To refuse to see this would be to deny reality.”
A few months later, Marine Le Pen considered that Gérald Darmanin was in agreement with the National Rally on “a number of essential issues”, including “the link between immigration and crime”.
For his part, Emmanuel Macron had stuck to a position, to say the least ambiguous, on France 2 on October 26. “I will never make an existential link between immigration and insecurity”, the President of the Republic had advanced.
While stressing that “when we look at crime in Paris, half of the events come from foreigners in an irregular situation or waiting.”
Source: BFM TV
