- Tweeter
republish
The alleged perpetrator of the knife attack in Villeurbanne on Saturday, August 31st near Lyon is an Afghan man in his thirties, asylum seeker in France. He had a temporary residence card valid until January 2020. If the terrorist track is currently discarded, the case has sparked controversy on the political ground. The profile of the suspect has provoked indignant reactions from the right and the far right who denounce the failure of the government's migration policy.
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan hit the hardest. For the president of Debout France - ally of the National Rally at the last presidential - a " fundamentalist Islamist declared war on our civilization ".
The fault, according to Marine Le Pen to the " naivety and laxity of our migration policy ," writes on Twitter the patron of the National Gathering.
On the right, the Republican MP Eric Ciotti denounces the "naivety" of the executive who " threatens the security of the French ."
On the other hand, the presidential majority and insubordinate France find themselves for once on the same line.
When the principal lieutenant of Jean-Luc Mélenchon criticizes those " who take advantage of this opportunity to make a dubious amalgam with the right of asylum ", the walker Gilles Le Gendre is said " disgusted " by these comments.
But at the same time, the leader of the deputies The Republic in March judges that there is indeed an " immigration problem in the spirit of the French ". " Our duty, " he said, " is to hear it. "
Emmanuel Macron also wanted a debate on the migration policy of France. It will take place on September 25 in the Assembly.