Paris (AFP)
A lively exchange on immigration on Thursday against BFMTV, in the last debate before the Europeans, the candidate Generations Benoît Hamon to the RN Jordan Bardella, accused by Mr. Hamon to embody "the shadow that extends" from the extreme right.
Jordan Bardella, "he is young, he is a form of energy and strength today, and he represents the shadow that spreads throughout Europe and France," said the head of the list of Generations, which questioned about the right to asylum.
"The shadow of an extreme right that dominates the political landscape by its themes, its theses ... I see a form of Anschluss far right ideas on the traditional right, even some who claimed to be from the left, "he continued. The term Anschluss refers to the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938.
"Today we are under the clear threat in Europe as in France of a racist international in front of which we give ground", he said, before inviting to "reconstitute the dyke of the humanists on these questions -the".
"You're going to scare us there", "I'm starting to shake, I'm shivering," cut him off ironically Mr. Bardella, who denounced in his response "the dictatorship of emotion on the part of the left "and the way the French are" feel guilty when they can not afford to make ends meet ". "The true humanism is the firmness," he said.
"Fortunately there was a beautiful Republic to welcome Bardella, Lopez and a few others before!" Replied Mr. Hamon.
"I am part of a generation of immigrants who has assimilated and who when she arrived in France has done everything to integrate," retorted Mr. Bardella, complaining of having "the impression to be in court ".
This theme of immigration revealed a clear division between the candidates of the right wing of the chessboard, who for the most part said they would not have hosted the rescue boat Aquarius and its refugees (Florian Philippot, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, Jordan Bardella, François-Xavier Bellamy) and those on the left (Manon Aubry, Yannick Jadot, Ian Brossat, Benoit Hamon, Raphael Glucksmann).
The UDI candidate Jean-Christophe Lagarde said he would have welcomed the migrants from Aquarius, which does not mean that they would have obtained a residence permit.
The head of LREM list Nathalie Loiseau, former Secretary of State for European Affairs, replied that she would have welcomed the ship if it had been close to the French coast, "which has never been the case".
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