Robert Ménard regrets his past positions on migrants

• Robert Ménard (various right), the mayor of Béziers, apologized on Wednesday on LCI for comments he made a few years ago on migrants.

• "I said, wrote, published a number of things at the time of the fighting in Syria, Iraq and the arrival of refugees in our country, which I regret," he said.

• He had posted, in his town, a poster presenting people supposed to be migrants, with the sentences “The State imposes them on us.

  That's it, they're coming."

The act is rare enough, in the political class, to be underlined: Robert Ménard (various right) apologized, Wednesday, on LCI, on the comments he made, a few years ago, on the immigrants.

Guest of David Pujadas, the mayor of Béziers (Hérault), who is now in favor of welcoming Ukrainian refugees to France, assured that he regretted his past positions.

“I will plead guilty, indicated the elected official.

I said, wrote, published in Béziers a number of things, for example, at the time of the fighting in Syria, in Iraq and the arrival of refugees in our country, which I regret.

That I am ashamed of having said and done because it was not right (…) There are not two kinds of victims, there are not Christian Europeans who should be defended and people , who would be in the Middle East, and Muslims, whom we would have been right not to accept in our country".

This attitude, “it is a fault, continued Robert Ménard.

The bombs are no different when they fall on my friends in Kiev than when they fall on my friends in Aleppo”.

“I have no trouble saying that I am wrong”

The mayor of Béziers had been strongly criticized, in 2016, for having posted, in his commune, a poster presenting people supposed to be migrants, in front of the cathedral of the city, with the sentences “The State imposes them on us.

That's it, they're coming."

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On February 22, in an interview with

Robert Ménard had already taken a step towards redemption.

"I have no trouble saying that I'm wrong," said the mayor of Béziers.

This is an essential difference with the political class.

Yes, there are things I did six or seven years ago that I won't do again today.

I don't want to hurt people.

I realized that ideas, handled in their aridity, with all the angles they can have, can hurt people.

And the world is quite difficult, I don't want to hurt people, moreover.

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