Gauthier Delomez
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8:17 p.m., November 23, 2022
It is an undesirable boat for Marine Le Pen. The Ocean Viking docked at the port of Toulon on Friday November 11 with more than 200 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean Sea on board, after Italy refused to welcome it. This Wednesday, there are only two migrants left in the accommodation center set up by the authorities. Special guest of punch linethe former finalist in the presidential election for the National Rally says that “all of this was predictable”.
“This is the reason why we have been against the reception of these boats for years, chartered by NGOs which respect a kind of ideological calendar and which are clearly accomplices of the smugglers”, thunders the president of the RN group to the National Assembly at the microphone of Laurence Ferrari, evoking the claim of a “commission of inquiry to the European Parliament to confirm what is the subject of Frontex reports, that is to say the relations between NGOs and smugglers “.
Comparison to the Leonarda case and Lampedusa
Marine Le Pen compares this situation to the Leonarda affair, named after a young girl from the Roma community who was to be deported with her family to Kosovo in 2013, before then-President François Hollande intervened. . “France is humiliated”, continues the deputy of Pas-de-Calais. “While the Minister of the Interior had come to flex his muscles, explaining that all these people would be in a guarded space from which they could not leave, it only took a few days for us to find ourselves with four migrants to be deported” , she points out.
For the former two-time presidential runner-up, “immigration policy in our country is completely out of control, and it is likely to get worse because from the moment the Ocean Viking has been accepted once, there is no reason” that there are not other boats, she believes in punch line. “There will be a call for air (…). It corresponds to what (Gérard) Collomb denounced”, recalls the deputy RN.
“In reality, Emmanuel Macron wanted to create a Lampedusa, either in Toulon or in Marseille, he will have his Lampedusa”, castigates the president of the group in the Assembly, in reference to an Italian island where many migrants have settled. found after attempting to cross the Mediterranean from Africa to Europe.
“Mr. Darmanin and his government accomplices of NGOs”
Denouncing the government’s management in this affair, Marine Le Pen remarks that she had proposed during the presidential campaign a “referendum on immigration, part of which consists of constitutionalising the rights of foreigners and indicating above all that no international text should may have a legal value superior to the Constitution (…), otherwise, we will not get out of it”, she adds at the microphone of Laurence Ferrari and Louis de Raguenel.
In addition, the MP for Pas-de-Calais described as “irresponsible” the remarks made by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin vis-à-vis Italy. The “real question” to ask the Minister is “why don’t you consider that Tunisian or Algerian ports are safe ports”, believes Marine Le Pen, who answers his question: “We are creating funnels so that these boats do not can only go to one place: European territory”. “In this, Mr. Darmanin and his government are accomplices of these NGOs”, tackles the president of the RN group in the Assembly, who indicated that she would vote against the future asylum-immigration bill.