How did New Zealand's killer inspire the theory of "big replacement"?

The French newspaper Le Monde said the perpetrator of the Massacre of the Al-Nour Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, had adopted the concept of "great replacement" by French right-wing writer Reno Camus to justify his terrorist act last Friday.

In a joint article by a group of journalists, the newspaper said that right-wing Reno Camus did not care to be the executor of the terrorist attack that killed 50 Muslims. He had benefited from the concept of "big replacement" and may be satisfied with Twitter. He does not feel he bears any responsibility for the conduct of the terrorist Breton Tarrant.

However, the "big replacement" is written in bold letters on the front page of the statement published by Australian Tarant, 28, before entering the mosque directly to shoot at the audience, showing his sadness at the supposed invasion of the Western world by "Non-Europeans".

Statement of Tarrant
Tarant says his heart has broken to see French President Emmanuel Macaron "the global anti-white" supposedly pro-immigration, winning the 2017 "nationalism" Marin Le Pen, noting that he was crazy and driven to move, in addition to what he saw during his stay in France from "invaders everywhere", in reference to non-European origin.

The paper said that this speech perfectly fit - if we exclude violence - with a theory
The "big replacement" developed by Renault Camus a decade ago, and the political debate that has raged since then in France and abroad.

In its approximate summary of the theory, the paper said that it comprises two parts: the first is based on a demographic "observation" of "large" immigration and the high fertility of non-Europeans, which will give them numerical superiority over the indigenous peoples of Europe (Caucasians) and will allow them to impose their culture and religion on The continent.

For example, the paper commented that this theory is essentially racist because it is based on the issue of skin color and race as a criterion of belonging, regardless of whether the person was born in Europe from European parents for generations. If he is not a Caucasian, alternative".

At this level, black people in the West Indies - for example - are considered "alternatives" even if they are French for several generations, while an Italian or Polish "white" immigrant does not raise any concern.

Moreover, the figures lie in the essence of this thesis, because the census of immigrants and descendants of non-European immigrants is difficult to reach 5% of the population in France - for example - so the subject of "substitution" is very far, the newspaper says.

The second part is in the conspiracy theory, because it is assumed that this "great replacement" is in collusion with the "substitutionary power" of the capitalist elites called the "universals" and willingly organizes a large migration to build a new human being free of any National, ethnic and cultural specificity "and therefore" interchangeable "and" transferable "in the interests of the globalized economy.

To illustrate, the paper once again commented that this reading stems from the conspiracy theory in which many of its features appear - the assumption that there is a large global and secret plan, simulated by mysterious groups with enormous capabilities.

In addition, the paper found in this assumption "a substitutional elite that is stateless and globalized and presumed to be an antagonist of the tradition and of the indigenous people," noting that these are the classic features of the conspiracy theories that are usually given to Jews by anti-Semites.

An old tradition of the far right
The first to publicly defend this theory was Renault Camus in a book in 2010, before it developed into a "grand replacement," although it is not its true inventor. It originated in the late 19th century with Maurice Paris (one of the intellectual fathers of French nationalism) ).

For historian Emmanuel DeBono, the "great replacement" goes back to the roots, such as the theories of "eviction" made at the end of the 19th century in the Antilles to conquer the colonists through demographic overruns.

An idea rooted in political debate
Kamou's influence in political dialogues is indisputable, although his success in popular circles has been limited, she noted, noting that many prominent media and political figures no longer hesitate to embrace the idea of ​​"big replacement."

Among the politicians who adopted this theory, the newspaper said the second man in the National Front Jean-Pierre Stirbo, who called in 1982 to return the migrants to their country of origin, in unambiguous terms, and the founder of the National Front Jean-Marie Le Pen himself thought that "the replacement Big "was" wanted and organized "by" the desire of every dominant political class to reduce population numbers and import a complementary group, to become a substitute for the population.

Former President of the National Rally Party (NPR) Marin Le Pen has shown a more cautious attitude, refusing to adopt the theory of "great replacement", although in 2013 she denounced a "great replacement of the population" when accused by former President François Hollande of opening the French border " "He said.

The idea of ​​Camus has spread increasingly within the conservative right in general, but without explicitly mentioning the term, echoing that of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy when he sounded the alarm in 2016 about the "European civilization" that has become a minority. Demography makes history, not vice versa. "

From migration to violence
At the end of the article, did the fact that Tarant - the Christchurch terrorist - with the expression "big replacement" in the foreground of his deadly statement - count from Renault Camus' aides?

Although he continued to recall that he was a supporter of nonviolence, Camus was sentenced in 2014 on charges of stirring up hatred or violence after presenting Muslims as "thugs," "soldiers," "armed arm of the invasion," or "colonizers" Making Life Impossible for Indigenous Peoples.

Kamo, in addition to verbal condemnation, is a strong supporter of "reverse displacement," which means forcing forced migrants (in a "peaceful" and "humane" way) to return to their "supposed countries of origin."

Le Monde concluded that Tarant was an integral part of an old tradition of the extreme right wing, which had been condemned decades before the theory of "big replacement" of "presumed emigration". The guide used the Black Sun, a badge popular with neo-Nazis .