Paris (AFP)
National Rally leaders on Tuesday urged the European Union to "make a firm and definitive refusal" to a potential EU membership of Turkey, which began Monday to expel foreign jihadists.
Ankara fired three jihadists and announced the next expulsion of 22 others, including French and Germans.
In Paris, the Quai d'Orsay recalled that jihadists and their families are regularly sent back to France from Turkey and arrested on their descent from the plane.
"The blackmail of Islamist Sultan Erdogan is unbearable.The European Union must send a firm and definitive refusal to Turkey to enter the EU and stop paying millions and billions to Turkey each year" in the the framework of the pre-accession process and the control of migratory flows by Ankara, asked France 2 Jordan Bardella, vice-president of the RN.
Turkey has been a candidate for EU membership since 1987 but negotiations are currently at a standstill.
The Turkish president "threatens Europe for years, Europe folds" and, "what is incredible is that we continue to give billions of euros to Turkey," abounded on Public Senate Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, president of Debout France.
About jihadists, he said that "it will be necessary to judge them in France and as French justice is deeply lax we will have damage," he said, saying expect "small penalties as d 'whereas if they were judged in Syria or Iraq it would be over.'
Mr. Bardella, "opposed to the return of jihadists", said "favorable to real life for terrorism cases" if they were to be tried on French territory.
Turkey's jihadist referrals come on the heels of an Ankara offensive in northeastern Syria, strongly criticized by the West for targeting Kurdish allied forces in the international coalition against jihadists.
In France, returns are made under an agreement on this subject negotiated in 2014 by then Minister of the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve "which, for now, works without a hitch", according to the Ministry of Business Foreign.
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